On a new Gentoo install, GDM kept failing to start:<\/p>\n
Found:<\/p>\n The GDM install changed the ownership of \/var\/lib\/gdm\/.local\/share\/applications to gdm.gdm – but it did not change the ownership of the parent directory \/var\/lib\/gdm\/.local\/share …<\/em><\/p>\n Simple solution, chown -R gdm.gdm\u00a0\/var\/lib\/gdm<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On a new Gentoo install, GDM kept failing to start: (EE) Cannot open log file “\/var\/lib\/gdm\/.local\/share\/xorg …log Found: The GDM install changed the ownership of \/var\/lib\/gdm\/.local\/share\/applications to gdm.gdm – but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[54,56,59],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","category-gnome","tag-fix","tag-gdm","tag-gnome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":663,"url":"https:\/\/www.mgreene.org\/?p=663","url_meta":{"origin":302,"position":0},"title":"Gnome 42","author":"Mike","date":"June 15, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I thought I would never reach a stable Gnome 42 install! 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