gdm3 not starting into gnome

Sat Jan 6 19:03:10 UTC 2018

Guy, what are you talking??? You have a mental problem!

Please don't answer further!

On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 19:30:26 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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