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Veldora

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From: Sol III, Milky Way

Registered: 2023-01-26

Posts: 50

After GNOME 50 Update - GDM bypasses login-greeter

Hi there,

Yes, I know there is a troubleshooting guide about exact this issue and I've read it and applied the described steps:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GDM#GD … o_GNOME_50

However, I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I searched through the formus and stumbled over a post in the Dustbin, which unfortunately was just some AI Slop.

I've created the file and populated it with the described content:

~# tree /etc/dconf/profile/
/etc/dconf/profile/
├── gdm
├── ibus
└── user

~# cat /etc/dconf/profile/gdm
user-db:user
system-db:gdm
file-db:/usr/share/gdm/greeter-dconf-defaults

I've updated dconf as described in the troubleshooting-section of the GDM article:

dconf update

I rebooted the PC a first time and the issue was still there
Next: I have also set the ownership of gdm to gdm:gdm

~# ls -l /etc/dconf/profile/gdm
-rw-r--r-- 1 gdm gdm 72 Apr 21 09:23 /etc/dconf/profile/gdm

I have rebooted my device yet again and it still bypasses the login-greeter.

Am I missing something important?
I would like to output the whole journal, however, my journal is full of disclosed stuff, which isn't exactly meant to be seen by public eyes. And disclosing it with e.g. sed doesn't really work well.

Also: Is there an explanation why this happens? Why did GDM 49 behave differently to GDM 50?

Update: After further investigation, the dconf update command doesn't generate the gdm db-file, which should be located under

/etc/dconf/db/gdm

~# ls -l /etc/dconf/db/
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5547 Apr 21 15:03 ibus
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   40 Apr  9 11:27 ibus.d

Last edited by Veldora (Today 13:08:49)