Mastodawn

No progress at all on this #Ubuntu #GDM login failure issue; I can now only use the machine with a PTS console login, then run gnome-session --wayland, and that gives me only basic function, no access to things like User Accounts.

journalctl only gives these two clues, neither of which yields any meaningful Search results (in 2026)

gdm-autologin][]: gkr-pam: no password is available for user
gdm-autologin][]: pam_unix(gdm-autologin:session): session opened for user guest(uid=1005) by guest(uid=0)
gdm-autologin][]: gkr-pam: couldn't unlock the login keyring.
gdm3[841002]: Gdm: GdmDisplay: Session never registered, failing

but console login proves the user has a perfectly good password! GDM3 fails on the auto-login acct, presents the list of users, clicking one lets you enter pw, then bounces back to the acct list screen and any subsequent attempts are shown a non-functional box to enter their pw and a 'back' button that does nothing. 😩

AskUbuntu 3d ago

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS: GDM3 fails to start on Intel HD 530 (ThinkCentre) after update #upgrade #startup #gdm

https://askubuntu.com/q/1565253/612

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS: GDM3 fails to start on Intel HD 530 (ThinkCentre) after update

After updating to Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, my cheap ThinkCentre M910q machine no longer boots into the GUI. It drops to a TTY1 login prompt every time. Diagnostics Hardware: Intel HD Graphics 530 on a ...

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Óscar Miguéns Moares Mar 15

Onte falloume a carga de #gdm no arrinque ao iniciar o meu equipo.

Dubido que sexa fallo do núcleo 6.12.74 ao que actualicei fai uns días.

Dado que co 6.12.73 si que arrinca sospeito que é un problema co driver de nvidia.

Teño #Debian13. Algún consello?

#linux #debian #gnome

Robin Marx's Writing Repository Mar 5

Review Archive – Conan the Barbarian #26 by Jim Zub (W) and Fernando Dagnino (A)

This review originally appeared at Grimdark Magazine on February 12, 2026. [...]

https://write.as/robinmarx/review-archive-conan-the-barbarian-26-by-jim-zub-w-and-fernando-dagnino

Robin Marx's Writing Repository Jan 26

Review Archive – Conan the Barbarian #25 by Jim Zub (W) and Alex Horley (A)

This review originally appeared at Grimdark Magazine on January 11, 2026. [...]

https://write.as/robinmarx/review-archive-conan-the-barbarian-25-by-jim-zub-w-and-alex-horley-a

in ♥️ with PDA (and 🐧)Jan 2

#gnome and #niri ... best of both worlds.

#gdm for looking, #niri as wm and all the good #gnome apps. even gnome-settings for managing network, bluetooth, sound.... :) love it

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in ♥️ with PDA (and 🐧)Jan 2

thanks to the #arch wiki: #GDM now great in 4k and with green accent

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GDM

...works with opensuse

GDM - ArchWiki

in ♥️ with PDA (and 🐧)Jan 2

anyone with #opensuse ... how do I scale up #gdm to 200% and change the accent color?

looopTools Dec 27

Hey #freebsd people. I have installed FreeBSD 15 on my Dell XPS 9500 which was very easy! However I am having an issue with #gnome the machine boots perfectly fine to #gdm login screen and I can type my password. As soon as I hit enter the machine freezes. I cannot even change to a TTY. Any ideas for how to debug it or what might be the cause? Pretty difficult when I cannot go to TTY

Trying from terminal I could see my home dir was owned by root which was part of the problem but not solved

Amadeus Paulussen Dec 18

Today, for the first time since I switched to Linux over 5 years ago, my #archlinux Z16 #thinkpad kept freezing after #gdm authentication. 😲

Apparently, because the status of `/run/user/1000` became corrupt. 🤔

1. TTY login
2. `loginctl terminate-user $USER` (cleanup sessions)
3. `systemctl restart systemd-logind` (recreating the directory)
4. `systemctl reboot`
5. Everything was back to normal

Took me an hour to figure out, though. 🫣