Re: gdm on a virtual machine commit (sysv)
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On 5/9/25 12:34 PM, Pierre Labastie ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote: > Le mercredi 07 mai 2025 à 18:18 -0400, Joe Locash a écrit : >> I'm some what confused by the recent commit for this. >> >> gdm: on a virtual machine, prevent using X11 on sysv >> >> The file /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules disables wayland >> for virtual GPUs. The problem is that X11 has a permission >> problem >> on sysv with user gdm, so wayland is mandatory. Describe >> what to do in "configuration information". This is the same >> problem as for nvidia GPUs... >> >> I don't see a permission problem and I'm able to start both wayland >> and >> xorg session with gdm in qemu? >> >> The books states: >> "However, on sysv, a permission problem prevents running X11 for >> user >> gdm , so running on wayland is mandatory. If your system is sysv on a >> virtual machine or you have an NVIDIA GPU and still want to try >> running >> Wayland sessions anyway, execute the following command as the root >> user:" >> >> This just doesn't make sense. If running on wayland is mandatory on >> a >> sysv build why would there need to be a change to run on wayland? >> >> Tested in qemu-9.2.2. > Well, gdm can run on X11 or wayland, and can launch a session on X11 or > Wayland. The problem I see (and I'd like to have some confirmation) is > that gdm _running_ on X11 cannot start... Once started (on wayland for > me) it can launch a session on any system. Thanks for the clarification. I did not know you were trying starting gdm on Xorg. I can confirm the issue but the commit does not fix it when running in qemu. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/info/blfs-dev Unsubscribe: See the above information page