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#1 2020-10-06 07:48:54

maboleth
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[solved] Auto-login keeps disabling on Gnome 3.38

Every time I enable auto-login in Gnome 3.38, it works for the next restart. Then the file custom.conf in /etc/gdm gets overwritten by itself, without auto-login lines.

Any cure for this?

Last edited by maboleth (2020-10-06 16:12:57)

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#2 2020-10-06 13:33:35

maboleth
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Re: [solved] Auto-login keeps disabling on Gnome 3.38

I even tried setting chmod 444 to custom.conf, but nothing. The file still gets rewritten every single time PC reboots.

This gets inserted by default and everything is rewritten:

[daemon]
WaylandEnable=false

Is there some higher priority file to where gdm gets instructions from?

Last edited by maboleth (2020-10-06 13:34:41)

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#3 2020-10-06 14:03:00

maboleth
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Re: [solved] Auto-login keeps disabling on Gnome 3.38

Currently the fix was to edit gdm.schemas file directly and bypass custom.conf.

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#4 2020-10-06 16:12:38

maboleth
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Re: [solved] Auto-login keeps disabling on Gnome 3.38

I filed a bug report and seems already fixed by the dev. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/641

The solution until it goes live is to set

chattr +i /etc/gdm/custom.conf

once you're satisfied with the changes and auto-login info.

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