Re: X session

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 20:51 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 10:14 -0500, Michael Hill wrote:
> > I've been happily pulling gnomeos to F18 for a few days now (often
> > enough that I needed the new 'prune' option last night). With help
> > from the CommonIssues page I can successfully boot into
> > ostree=current, but I don't seem to have an X session.
> 
> So I took a quick look at the most current 3.8-x86_64-devel tree.  This
> may be different from what was causing your issue since it was earlier,
> but I want to explain what I saw just now; hopefully just explaining
> things here will reduce the bus factor of the whole system =)

Oh also, the way I debugged this was to look
at /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log .

You can even do that after rebooting back to the "host" distribution -
just look at /ostree/var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log instead.