Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover - need help with systemctl
On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 04:37:23PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> OK, my fault.
>
> A new jessie installation. Display problem so I tried to switch to xdm.
> When this didn't work I tried to switch back to gdm3. No Go:
>
> gdm3.serviceJob for gdm.service failed.
>
> Looked for solution in man systemctl, found reset-failed command. Tried
>
> systemctl reset-failed gdm.service
>
> exit code was 0 but problem was not fixed.
>
> tried apt-get install --reinstall gdm3
>
> problem not fixed.
>
> What to do? Reinstall jessie? Continue experimenting with systemctl
> commands?
>
> Any suggestions?
purged and reinstalled gdm3. Restarted gdm3 and again gdm.service
failed.
The output of journalctl -xn is
Script started on Sun 08 Feb 2015 09:36:33 AM EST
Zebra:~# joun[Krnal [Kctl -xn
-- Logs begin at Sun 2015-02-08 09:12:45 EST, end at Sun 2015-02-08 09:31:13 EST. --[m
Feb 08 09:31:12 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;39mgdm.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1[0m[m
Feb 08 09:31:12 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;31mFailed to start GNOME Display Manager.[0m[m
-- Subject: Unit gdm.service has failed[m
-- Defined-By: systemd[m
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel[m
-- [m
-- Unit gdm.service has failed.[m
-- [m
-- The result is failed.[m
Feb 08 09:31:12 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;31mDependency failed for X11 Display Manager.[0m[m
-- Subject: Unit x-display-manager.target has failed[m
-- Defined-By: systemd[m
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel[m
-- [m
-- Unit x-display-manager.target has failed.[m
-- [m
-- The result is dependency.[m
Feb 08 09:31:12 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;39mUnit gdm.service entered failed state.[0m[m
Feb 08 09:31:13 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;39mgdm.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.[0m[m
Feb 08 09:31:13 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;31mFailed to start GNOME Display Manager.[0m[m
-- Subject: Unit gdm.service has failed[m
-- Defined-By: systemd[m
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel[m
-- [m
-- Unit gdm.service has failed.[m
-- [m
-- The result is failed.[m
Feb 08 09:31:13 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;31mDependency failed for X11 Display Manager.[0m[m
-- Subject: Unit x-display-manager.target has failed[m
-- Defined-By: systemd[m
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel[m
-- [m
-- Unit x-display-manager.target has failed.[m
-- [m
-- The result is dependency.[m
Feb 08 09:31:13 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;39mUnit gdm.service entered failed state.[0m[m
[KZebra:~# exit
Script done on Sun 08 Feb 2015 09:37:33 AM EST
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