Re: After buster upgrade gdm login not working

2019-09-04 Thread Kenneth C. Schalk
By any chance, is your user account defined in a network-based authentication database, like NIS or LDAP? Yes, exactly so, it's defined by NIS. The machine where gdm login is failing is an NIS client bound to a different Debian machine (still on Debian stretch) which acts as the NIS server. On

Re: After buster upgrade gdm login not working

2019-09-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 12:26:35PM -0400, Kenneth C. Schalk wrote: > > By any chance, is your user account defined in a network-based > > authentication database, like NIS or LDAP? > > Yes, exactly so, it's defined by NIS. https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster * The security settings for some com

Re: After buster upgrade gdm login not working

2019-09-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 11:41:05AM -0400, Kenneth C. Schalk wrote: > After looking through logs for a while, I suspect that this error > message from the X server might be the best clue as to what's going > wrong: > > (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (Permission denied) > > A

After buster upgrade gdm login not working

2019-09-01 Thread Kenneth C. Schalk
After upgrading to buster, attempting to login using gdm returns me immediately back to gdm, with the session apparently failing to start up correctly. I've tried to figure out what's going wrong but I'm a bit stumped and I could use some help resolving this. After looking through logs for a whi