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woomia

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Registered: 2012-06-09

Posts: 111

Can't login as a normal user in GDM

Fresh install of Gnome and GDM but I can't log into GDM as anything but root. Logging in as a normal user results in a black screen and a frozen computer.

woomia

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Registered: 2012-06-09

Posts: 111

Re: Can't login as a normal user in GDM

Even better. Removing GDM and trying to startx gets me "no screens found" yet obviously my X server is working since it works just with root.

woomia

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Registered: 2012-06-09

Posts: 111

Re: Can't login as a normal user in GDM

Well deleting my normal user and cr5eating a new one enabled me to login as a normal user. /baffled
But it works now.

Kajzer

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Registered: 2014-10-02

Posts: 11

Re: Can't login as a normal user in GDM

If you still have GDM and login that  way do you have two gnome-shell processes running ?

woomia

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Registered: 2012-06-09

Posts: 111

Re: Can't login as a normal user in GDM

No, I don't think I did. I  think something was screwed up during user creation.

Kajzer

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Registered: 2014-10-02

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Re: Can't login as a normal user in GDM

Sure, that issue had nothing to do with GDM but if you were to install GDM again and login that way most likely you would see two gnome-shell instances and xwayland process running.

woomia

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Registered: 2012-06-09

Posts: 111

Re: Can't login as a normal user in GDM

Thats weird.

Kajzer

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Registered: 2014-10-02

Posts: 11

Re: Can't login as a normal user in GDM

Yeah, there's some bug and it's related to GDM, more about it here :
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=196776

There's no solution yet, except avoiding GDM completely.