Unable to login after upgrade

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 03:59:14PM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 15:49, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 03:26:49PM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> > > On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 15:16, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Am Samstag, den 31.10.2020, 14:20 +0000 schrieb Gregory Gamble:
> > > > > I had looked at Volker's suggestion of looking at the log file for gdm3
> > > > > prior to this, but like Volker /var/log/gdm3 for me is empty.
> > > >
> > > > As someone else has pointed out: ~/.xsession-errors could be the right
> > > > place.
> > >
> > > I don't think ~/.xsession-errors is used any more, though I could be wrong.
> > >
> > Well I'm on 20.04 and .xsession-errors has today's date.
> 
> In that case my statement "I could be wrong" would appear to be an
> understatement.
> What is in it?
> On my system it is dated June 2018, on two other 20.04 systems here it
> doesn't exist.  That would suggest that it isn't used unless there is
> an error.
> 
Mine has hundreds of dBus and Gtk messages, presumbly none of which
prevent X from starting up because my systems are working fine.

The dBus messages are just information messages, the Gtk ones are
errors, from nm-applet mostly (Network Manager strikes again!)

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Chris Green