{"id":901,"date":"2018-08-05T07:16:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T13:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/?p=901"},"modified":"2019-07-24T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T23:10:12","slug":"gdm-fails-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"GDM fails to start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experimenting with VMs on Ubuntu, I had the system running on a relatively small root disk. Was troubleshooting problems in the disk array, doing a lot of booting, and crashing, when suddenly the boot wouldn&#8217;t finish. Fortunately the boot wasn&#8217;t quiet and I could watch as it tried 20-30 times to start the gdm service.<\/p>\n<p>I change the default to multi-user.target and got it up, and what do you know, the root filesystem is at 100%. Cleaned up some logs and crash logs and it came right up.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting that it doesn&#8217;t have a way to at least alert you that is what its problem is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experimenting with VMs on Ubuntu, I had the system running on a relatively small root disk. Was troubleshooting problems in the disk array, doing a lot of booting, and crashing, when suddenly the boot wouldn&#8217;t finish. Fortunately the boot wasn&#8217;t quiet and I could watch as it tried 20-30 times to start the gdm service. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/?p=901\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GDM fails to start<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boot-issues","category-linux","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}