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jade oriole
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@desert summit

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.s litany

dire thistleBOT
# jade oriole .s litany

Please follow the Standard Litany when asking a question:
• What was your environment? What was your operating system, configuration?
• What did you do? What did you run or test? Where?
• What actually happened? What were the exact results, complete log contents, exact error messages?
• What did you expect? What were you aiming to achieve? What result were you looking for?

Vague or superficial questions will yield vague or superficial answers. False information leads to false solutions.

Also see this similar guide on how to ask smart questions.

jade oriole
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I did find a thread that might help you but I do need a bit more info

desert summit
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  1. OS: EndeavourOS, With latest Gnome updates and kernel
  2. I basically used my pc for discord/internet browsing
  3. How do I get logs?
jade oriole
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normally running journalctl there's a few flags you can pass on to it

desert summit
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I tried journalctl but there's too much going on

jade oriole
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try this journalctl -xe | grep "authentication failure"

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assuming that is the proper error

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you can change the "authentication failure" to what ever the error was

desert summit
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there is no entry for that

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okay

jade oriole
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the "CONTENTS HERE" is just a pattern that grep looks for, that can be whatever you need it to be

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sorry for the caps

desert summit
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okay I think I got the error log

jade oriole
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if you don't remember if it was lower case or not then change the grep to grep -i "search pattern here"

desert summit
jade oriole
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@desert summit do you have a /etc/gdm/custom.conf file?

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we need to add a debug section, from all my reading it's looking like PAM is the failure point

desert summit
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oh

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I don't even have that

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what

jade oriole
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you can make it

desert summit
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is there a command for that

jade oriole
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do you have nano, nvim vim?

desert summit
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yes

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I have nano

jade oriole
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do nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf

desert summit
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mhm

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and next step?

jade oriole
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it should look like

[debug]
Enable=true
desert summit
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alright

jade oriole
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reboot

desert summit
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okei done

jade oriole
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the logs should be located in /var/log/messages per that link I included above

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should they be long in nature, you can use

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.s rs

dire thistleBOT
jade oriole
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when you cat the logs

desert summit
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I see

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my /var/log doesn't contain the messages directory/file

jade oriole
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use the same journalctl command from above but grep gdm pass in the -i flag though so it grabs GDM too just in case

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those are the actual Gnome docs so I have nothing for you in that case

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journalctl -xe _COMM=gdm apparently also work, never tried that myself so

desert summit
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theres

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gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
gkr-pam: stashed password to try later in open session

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and
dbus-daemon: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.home1 unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service" requested by ':1.62`

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then the log ends

jade oriole
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lol duh, I forgot to tell you to make sure the login fails