Bug#747292: gdm3: Unable to login after last upgrade (version 3.8.4-7): fails to start a GNOME session

[Benjamin Menant]

Hello Pascal,

You should be able to use systemd just once from your bootloader.

Here is a good start:
<https://wiki.debian.org/systemd>

Thank you very much Laurent.
I will take a further look at systemd (not yet tested, btw).

Benjamin.


Le 13/05/2014 07:47, Pascal Obry a écrit :
> Laurent,
> 
>> I think we have identified the issue, basically logind is
>> started/activated too late. We'll try to fix this to preserve
>> compatibility with other initsystem than systemd, but I guess it's a
>> good occasion to start using it if you don't mind :)
> 
> Sure, ready for anything...
> 
>> I would suggest you to try booting using systemd by setting the init
>> kernel parameter to /lib/systemd/systemd. If it's successful, you can
>> install systemd-sysv and _purge_ systemd-shim and then again reboot.
> 
> Can you tell me more about the procedure? Is there some Web page
> explaining that? I must say that this is beyond my current knowledge as
> I've never change the kernel init parameters.
> 
> Thanks,
> 

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