[Freeipa-users] freeipa and gdm

[Simo Sorce]

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 10:41 -0700, george he wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> 
> I already have a home directory which was created the first time I ssh
> in.
> Now when I click on "sign in", nothing happens...
> 

I've encountered this recently as well, apparently GDM uses some service
that misbehaves when nsswitch.conf is changed.
It used to be simple to fix that by forcing a restart of GDM (I used to
ctrl+alt+backspace once after install of sssd/ipa), but on my recent F17
it didn't work.
I suspect soem stuff has been moved to a helper that is not restarted
when gdm restart.
A reboot fixed it for me.

Simo.


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