Bug#681087: An attempt to remove background picture results in a failure to start gdm.

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 à 18:19 +0400, jaakov jaakov a écrit : 
> [org.gnome.desktop.background]
> picture-options='none'
> primary-color='#000000'
> 
> 2. Restart gdm3 by issuing
> /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart
> or by rebooting the machine.

Were you logged on X11 when doing that? In this case it is a very bad
idea.

Also note that reload would have been sufficient.

> 3. Observe that when gdm3 tries to restart, it fails to do so.
> Instead, it starts a (probably nonterminating) series of continuous
> restarts (shortly the mouse cursor gets displayed, then it
> disappears). Observe that you cannot use the machine any more: you
> cannot even switch to any console since the next restart of gdm takes
> you out.

Jul 10 15:36:14 localhost gnome-session[3710]: ERROR: Error loading dconf profile 'gdm': open '/var/lib/gdm3/dconf/profile/gdm': Permission denied#012#012aborting...

↑ This looks suspicious. Can you list (ls -lR) the contents and
permissions of /var/lib/gdm3/dconf and all its subdirectories?

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