Bug 787575

Summary:	gdm-40.0 fails to start. Cannot find /usr/libexec/gdm-wait-for drm
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Randy Tupas <rjtupas>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Randy Tupas 2021-05-01 22:59:36 UTC

Installed the latest gdm-40.0. Failed to start on missing plymouth service files and "failed to locate executable /usr/libexec/gdm-wait-for-drm: No such file or directory".

Added plymouth use flag to eliminate the missing plymouth service file, but gdm still fails on second error.

Comment 1 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2021-05-02 14:29:22 UTC

Strange. gdm-wait-for-drm was added by gnome-base/gdm/files/gdm-CanGraphical-wait.patch which also adds it to the .service file. That patch isn't applied in v40.0. Not sure how this could happen...

Oh, I wonder if you need to run systemd daemon-reload because it's trying to run the old service file?

Comment 2 Randy Tupas 2021-05-02 18:33:23 UTC

Although rebooting my machine would reload the systemd daemon, your comment got me looking for a service file in my /etc/systemd/system directory. I found a gdm.service file there (don't recall how it got there) and deleted it. Problem solved. Thanks for the insight.