gdm3 not starting into gnome

[Ralf Mardorf]

My last attempt to help you, to help us to help you.

On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 18:32:34 +0100, Dennis Heuer wrote:
>On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 03:48:39 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> So you installed https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/gnome ?  
>
>Guy, you ask me questions... I used synaptics, a tool from ubuntu,
>isn't it? Insinde synaptics there is a package named "gnome", and that
>I took!

I'm only aware of a tool named "synaptic" and an unrelated package
called "xserver-xorg-input-synaptics". However, there might be an
official supported tool named "synaptics", but that doesn't mean that it
necessarily works flawlessly. Apart from this, we don't know if you are
using any third party repositories. Maybe there's a Bodhi Linux
repository enabled.

To rule out any issues that might or might not be caused by the
graphical package manager, it would help, if you would use command line.

>> Instead of using a graphical package manager consider to use
>> command line.
>> 
>> For testing purpose you could install
>> https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/ubuntu-gnome-desktop .
>> 
>> Btw. https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/gnome-session contains the
>> file /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop .  
>
>That was installed but not recon'ed by neither lightdm nor gdm3. Read
>my first email again. I mentioned all that!

The reason for this could be, that you aren't using Ubuntu, but an
Ubuntu derivative.

>> JFTR the gnome-session packages for bionic provide a
>> file /usr/share/xsessions/gnome-xorg.desktop .  
>
>What is JFTR? And what is "bionic"?

It's the next Ubuntu LTS release, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases .

If you would have read the links I already provided, you at least would
have noticed, that it is an Ubuntu release.

>> However, I wonder that you edited something to make GNOME the default
>> DE. I never ever would use GNOME or E17, but I'm using lightdm on
>> Arch Linux, as well as on Ubuntu Xenial. The last chosen session
>> automatically becomes the default session for the next startup, so
>> actually there is nothing you need to edit.  
>
>Normally, but in my case plain wrong! And I did not "edit something"
>but "/var/lib/AccountsService/users/user", as was told so in a tutorial
>at Ubuntu. Read my first email again!!!

Could you provide a link to this source? Perhaps it's a Wiki that needs
editing.

>> It's hard to understand what you actually did. For example, if you
>> installed a metapackage and later removed it, autoremove should
>> remove all dependencies.  
>
>I'd say that you don't even try! And, no, it did not!

Sure, I asked you something, because I don't want to do research
regarding "Bodhi Linux 4.4.0". You can't expect that somebody
subscribed to this list knows much about Bodhi Linux, if anything at
all.

>> "The packages installed through a metapackage are marked
>> automatically installed. Meaning, if the metapackage is removed, the
>> package system will suggest them for autoremoval unless you mark
>> them as manually installed. Although I believe that is not the case
>> for metapackages installed at system setup, only for those installed
>> later." -
>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/679668/what-are-the-consequences-of-removing-metapackages 
>> >Only, if he can't answer because he didn't touch that
>> >subsystem, it's quite logical to ask here, isn't it???  
>> 
>> No it isn't. It's irrational to install a distro that isn't official
>> supported by this mailing list and then ask for support on this
>> mailing list, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuUsersListFAQ#FAQ1 .  
>
>As you know that piece of system better, as it was left untouched. For
>a user, yes, going to the source is very rational. A user doesn't know
>your internal attitudes and borderlines. And, to be very clear about
>this, you are a mess of a support!

If it's untouched and doesn't work, than it is a bug, you should report
to the Ubuntu bugtracker,
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

Hth,
Ralf