Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover - need help with systemctl - more details
On 2/8/15, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> songbird wrote:
>> Thomas H. George wrote:
>> ...
>> > 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.
>>
>> ok, so root works under xdm.
>
> Which means it is not an X problem and not a system level problem.
> Which means the problem is probably something related to the desktop
> in the user $HOME/.config and other files.
>
> If you create a fresh pristine new user "anothertom" or some such does
> it all work for that new user? If so then the problem is not system
> related but corruption of files in the $HOME.
Coming in at the VERY tail end of this. My deepest apologies if this
has already been said. I JUST went through something similarly
different yesterday with Sid. Not sure the how or what of how my
situation came to be, but in the middle of it I remembered there was a
default example somewhere for profiles.
That default is within /etc/skel. Those are .bashrc, .profile, and
.bash_logout. I copied those over, and it still didn't work..
So I went back in as root and just sat there staring at various files
under a new user's home directory that worked properly and my desired
user's home directory that didn't. File permissions were different.
The one not working still belonged to root. *smacking head*
I changed that, and have been smokin' along as my desired user profile
within Sid ever since.
Might not fix what's going on for OP here, but figured it might work
for someone with another "similarly different" problem when they
stumble on this thread in the archives...
Good luck!
Cindy :)
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Cindy-Sue Causey
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
* falls on face occasionally *
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