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Thorsten Reinbold

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 353

[Solved] After f2fs>ext4: gdm doesn't start

Hi there!

A small problem that I can't solve: I've tested f2fs on my / partition. Because the benefit was low, I've changed back to ext4. I did this by backing up the files on / with tar (tar --one-file-system -C /PARTITION -cvaf /DESTINATION/xyz.tgz .), formatting the root partition with ext4 and restore the files. After that, I chrooted to the new partition and edited the fstab and rebuild the kernel.

That worked well, with one exception: gdm doesn't start any longer. tty1 stays black after booting, but I can log in at tty2 and start gnome-shell with startx without problems. The logs don't show me any useful error messages, so I'm a bit out of ideas here.

Last edited by Thorsten Reinbold (2014-02-25 06:50:26)

Thorsten Reinbold

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 353

Re: [Solved] After f2fs>ext4: gdm doesn't start

Reinstalling xorg-iceauth solved the problem.