Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover - need help with systemctl - more details
On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 09:55:20AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> 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
journal output omitted. See previous posting.
Following previous suggestions installed both xdm and kdm. If
default-display-manager is set to xdm when xdm is started I get the
Debian login window and can only login as root. The login is successful
to the gnome desktop. Tried to switch users but could not. Exited.
If the default-display-manager is set to kdm when kdm is started I get
the kdm login window. If I try to login with my user name my password
is not recognized. If I try to login as root the login is not allowed.
If the default-display-manager is set to gdm3 I get the message
gdm.service failed and the journal output as in the previous posting.
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