Bug#686118: gdm3: error when failing to start is not too helpfull

Folkert van Heusden folkert at vanheusden.com
Wed Aug 29 15:02:29 UTC 2012


>> Currently when I start gdm3 it gives me the following error:
>>
>>       Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdm3 failed!
>>
>> (using /etc/init.d/gdm3 start).
>> This is not very helpfull. It should give some hints where to look to see what is failing.
>
> This is pretty much standard behavior. You might want to look at logs in
> order to find out what went wrong.

Ok, but what logs?
gdm? xorg?
It might be standard behaviour, but it is not helping the user
determine what is wrong.


Regards,
Folkert.



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