| 7 Jan 2025 |
 @mcnesium:matrix.org | slightly OT: shouldn't this room also be in #space:nixos.org ? | 18:27:03 |
 Salt | it is, it's within one of the subspaces | 18:31:07 |
| @mcnesium:matrix.org | true. the search results were too slow I guess. | 18:32:29 |
| Salt | yeah, it takes forever to load, I just tried to figure out which subspace and it timed out | 18:32:57 |
| Salt | anyhoo, that's how I initially found the channel | 18:33:19 |
|  SigmaSquadron changed their display name from SigmaSquadron to SigmaSquadron (Away until 2024-01-12). | 19:35:32 |
|  Renato Trevisan set a profile picture. | 21:58:31 |
| 8 Jan 2025 |
 p14 | I'm guessing there is no good reason that the display manager sends its debug logs to /dev/null. systemctl show display-manager.service shows that StandardInput=null, and StandardError=inherit, and StandardOutput=journal. Inherit, from the systemd manpage means that it inherits from StandardInput, not StandardOutput, so error messages go to /dev/null. That happens to not be where I want them to go, unfortunately. I hope that's an oversight rather than intentional? | 21:09:30 |
| p14 | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/238b407862874909d510ff4deb1391cbe23efd16/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/gdm.nix#L258 | 21:09:32 |
 ElvishJerricco | p14: I think that's not true | 21:25:47 |
| ElvishJerricco |
StandardError=
Controls where file descriptor 2 (stderr) of the executed processes is connected to. The available options are identical to those of StandardOutput=, with some exceptions: if set to inherit the file descriptor used for standard output is duplicated for standard error, while fd:name will use a default file descriptor name of "stderr".
| 21:26:02 |
| ElvishJerricco | *
StandardError=
Controls where file descriptor 2 (stderr) of the executed processes is connected to. The available options are identical to those of StandardOutput=, with some exceptions: if set to inherit the file descriptor used for standard output is duplicated for standard error, while fd:name will use a default file descriptor name of "stderr".
| 21:26:11 |
| ElvishJerricco | *
StandardError=
Controls where file descriptor 2 (stderr) of the executed processes is connected to. The available options are identical to those of StandardOutput=, with some exceptions: if set to inherit the file descriptor used for standard output is duplicated for standard error, while fd:name will use a default file descriptor name of "stderr".
| 21:26:24 |
| p14 | Oh, apologies for my mistake; I'm struggling to explain why I'm not getting debug output for bin/gdm in the display manager process. | 21:26:55 |
| p14 | I think I must have hallucinated this incorrect point from somewhere. | 21:27:19 |
| ElvishJerricco | p14: When I set services.xserver.displayManager.gdm.debug and services.xserver.desktopManager.gnome.debug I get debug output | 21:27:25 |
| ElvishJerricco | I am glad those exist because at one point either they didn't or I didn't know about them and getting debug output was proving impossible :P | 21:27:49 |
| p14 | I have those set. I have less debug output than I am expecting. I am experimenting with multi-seat and trying to determine why the second seat hangs immediately during login | 21:27:53 |
| p14 | Unfortunately it also produces no log messages. Maybe because it is hanging so early in the process? | 21:28:11 |
| p14 | I've found a helpful soul who is trying to help me to get it to working but they're claiming I'm missing logs. | 21:28:33 |
| p14 | (Which I'd believe because there are so few of them) | 21:28:38 |
| p14 | I'm sort of beginning to think this second seat's gdm is just not producing logs and I don't understand why | 21:29:41 |
| p14 | Right, there isn't a gdm-per-seat, it's just the one gdm... 🤔 | 21:30:58 |
| Salt | okay, new question about extensions... what is the timeline from merge of backport PR to actually being in nixpkgs? | 22:23:32 |
 Alyssa Ross | couple of days | 22:24:37 |
| Salt | kay, will try to be a bit more patient before checking whether a specific extension is breaking | 22:25:15 |
| Alyssa Ross | (assuming backport to a release branch, not to staging) | 22:25:18 |
| Salt | yeah, it appears to be a release backport | 22:25:51 |
| Salt | * yeah, it appears to be a release backport, merged 2 days ago | 22:27:16 |
| Salt | I just saw this comment while trying to track down a different package's backport state and was wondering it is the general consensus?
I don't think any of the GNOME packagers use stable so you are on your own testing the changes :-)
| 23:45:29 |
