Bug#1142338: Acknowledgement (gnome-shell: after upgrade from trixie to forky, gnome-shell reports Failed to start X Wayland)

[Jon Mansey]

After setting the ownership to root and logging in successfully, then restarting the machine, Ive found the ownership gets reset back to gdm-greeter:Debian-gdm and gnome-session fails again. 

Setting the owner to debian:debian (ie user 1000) also fails.

Only setting owner to root:root and chmod 777 and +t allows gdm to start after every OS restart.



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