Am 06.02.2013 08:19, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > Sorry for answering so late; long weekend in here.
No problem ... I had other issues here and so far it is just OK to use xdm.service instead. btw. even with xdm there is a pretty slow startup of gnome (time between hitting enter after the password and a working gnome-shell) ... Over the last days I pretty much rebuilt most of that machine ... >> 10:59:25.755: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c6 >> (system bus name :1.28 [gnome-shell --mode=gdm], object path >> /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale de_DE.UTF-8) >> >> Nothing more. > > I was expecting more from that. > >> The gdm.log is empty. > > That is weird; if you ran gdm outside of systemd, with the --nodaemon > option, the program should print everything to stdout and/or stderr, > and then &> should capture it. I will retry this asap ... but not right now ... maybe later this day. > I'm running out of ideas. What does the file /etc/pam.d/gdm-password contains? # cat gdm-password #%PAM-1.0 auth optional pam_env.so auth include system-local-login account include system-local-login password include system-local-login session include system-local-login Stefan