On Sat, 2015-10-03 at 10:05 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 03:44:58PM +0100, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > > > I've recently noticed that my system doesn't always get to GDM on > > boot. I'm not sure what's causing it, but looking at the boot > > messages, it seems to get stuck around something to do with "User > id 42". > > You can check what is "User id 42" by typing > > id -n -u 42 > > (or by looking at id numbers in /etc/passwd). Unless you were > forcing > some id changes on your system you will most likely find that the > answer > is "gdm". Surprise!
Should've guessed that.. > > > I'm trying to get more info off journalctl but it doesn't have > > any. Any suggestions? > > systemctl -l status gdm > It is really hard to guess without any information what troubles you > may have and why. > > > Oh, booting into run level 3 and then running startx seems to work. > > How about 'telinit 5' instead here? 'systemctl default' should do > the > same (one would hope so). I know, but when gdm fails, the system just hangs and I can't access a virtual terminal or anything - journalctl doesn't seem to store data about this boot at all :/ For the time being, I've changed my login manager to lightdm and that appears to work fine. I'll keep testing this from time to time and see if I can get some logs or error info. -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
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