Bug#779989: invoke-rc.d: initscript gdm3, action "reload" failed.

[Josh Triplett]

severity 779989 grave
thanks

Turns out this actually prevents gdm from starting at all, rather than
just breaking reload.  When I next booted my system, it stayed in text
mode and failed to start gdm.  So, marking this as RC, since people
upgrading should not end up in a situation where they cannot start
graphics.  (Which, for many people, may prevent them from bringing up
networking and thus searcihng for a solution or workaround.)

On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 10:48:58PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 07/03/15 18:25, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > Mar 07 10:17:42 thin systemd[1]: Failed to load environment files: No such file or directory
> > Mar 07 10:17:42 thin systemd[1]: gdm.service failed to run 'reload' task: No such file or directory
> 
> Do you have a /etc/default/locale file?

No.  Creating (an empty) one worked around this issue and allowed gdm to
start.

> If not, this looks like a bug in the patch I cherry-picked from upstream
> for #774889:
> 
> +EnvironmentFile=@LANG_CONFIG_FILE@
> 
> should perhaps be
> 
> +EnvironmentFile=- at LANG_CONFIG_FILE@
> 
> to ignore absence of that file.

Yes, that looks like the right fix.

> #774889 was RC and this isn't, so I'll have to get approval from the
> release team before making that adjustment.

I just bumped this up to RC since it breaks boot.

- Josh Triplett