Bug#1087442: gnome-initial-setup: started by gdm after an (dist-)upgrade and a reboot

[Patrice Duroux]

Oh I see. All the users of this machine are registered in an openldap
and so no regular "local" (etc/password) users (except a root I think).
Could that also trigger this process?

Many thanks!

Le mer. 13 nov. 2024 à 18:18, Jeremy Bícha
<jeremy.bicha at canonical.com> a écrit :
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 11:36 AM Patrice Duroux
> <patrice.duroux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was surprised that after an update on a server machine to unstable
> > and a reboot, I was facing a gnome-initial-setup process on the server
> > console display.
> > Is gdm supposed to also run gnome-initial-setup for its own Debian-gdm user?
> > I was also surprised then by some of the questions during the process
> > if this is something expected.
>
> If there are no regular users on the system, then GDM runs GNOME
> Initial Setup in New User mode. (This actually is the only supported
> mode for gnome-initial-setup upstream.) New User mode provides an easy
> way to create a regular user account that you can then log into with
> GDM. Otherwise, GDM would not show any users and could not really be
> used.
>
> Thank you,
> Jeremy Bícha