James Pearson
2018-Dec-06 14:24 UTC
[CentOS] Can't configure GDM after update to CentOS 7.6
Jonathan Billings wrote:> > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 10:01:25AM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: >> Now with CentOS 7.6 this doesn't work anymore. The /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d >> directory is nowhere to be found, and I'm currently mildly cursing the >> GNOME developers' (and Red Hat's) policy of releasing moving targets. >> Until now, the whole purpose of Enterprise Linux seemed to be low-risk >> updates. </rant> > > While the /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/ directory doesn't exist, I've got many > RHEL7.6 and CentOS 7.6 systems where GDM behaves the same way as > before, as long as you create /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/ and put the files > in there, and as soon as you run 'dconf update', you see it change. > > I'm not sure why the /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/ and > /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/locks/ directory aren't owned by a package > anymore, that seems like a bug, but as far as I can tell, GDM > continues to get its information from there.I suspect it might be something that has been left out in the rebase to GDM 3.28.1 - an earlier change log for GDM has: * Thu Jun 25 2015 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> 3.14.2-4 - Make sure user customizations to gdm via /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d continue to work following rebase. Related: #1174564 So, I'm guessing that something similar was left out with this change from 3.26 to 3.28 ? Maybe a bug report to https://bugzilla.redhat.com is needed ? James Pearson
Nicolas Kovacs
2018-Dec-06 16:10 UTC
[CentOS] Can't configure GDM after update to CentOS 7.6
Le 06/12/2018 ? 15:24, James Pearson a ?crit?:> I suspect it might be something that has been left out in the rebase to > GDM 3.28.1 - an earlier change log for GDM has:On a side note, I've now spent a day and a half trying to recover my wrecked desktop profiles, with only a partial success. As it looks now, I'll probably move all my desktop installations to openSUSE Leap 15 and KDE 5 in the near future. As far as I can tell, rebasing GNOME in the middle of a minor update was not a good idea. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'?glise - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info at microlinux.fr T?l. : 04 66 63 10 32
Alice Wonder
2018-Dec-06 16:56 UTC
[CentOS] Can't configure GDM after update to CentOS 7.6
On 12/06/2018 08:10 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:> Le 06/12/2018 ? 15:24, James Pearson a ?crit?: >> I suspect it might be something that has been left out in the rebase to >> GDM 3.28.1 - an earlier change log for GDM has: > > On a side note, I've now spent a day and a half trying to recover my > wrecked desktop profiles, with only a partial success. As it looks now, > I'll probably move all my desktop installations to openSUSE Leap 15 and > KDE 5 in the near future. > > As far as I can tell, rebasing GNOME in the middle of a minor update was > not a good idea. > > Cheers, > > Niki >They did a similar thing with NetworkManager few releases ago that caused all my servers to start grabbing randomized IPv6 addresses instead of static they previously grabbed. I don't understand why Red Hat makes these kind of changes in point releases - yet they won't update OpenSSL or PHP or Postfix in a point release. It's like they use /dev/random to determibe where they require API stability between point releases. -- For signature trust anchor (paranoid only need worry 'bout this): https://ca.pipfrosch.com/pipfrosch-cacert-pem.crt Webmail clients, sorry, out of luck, you can't import it. Get an actual e-mail app.