[Nix-dev] "Failed to execute login command"

Luca Bruno lethalman88 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 22:44:15 CEST 2014


It happened to me a couple of times after big nixos-rebuild. It may
happened that some X drivers were updated.


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Since about a month now, whenever I do "nixos-rebuild switch" (after
> also updating channel sources) I'm being kicked out of the desktop
> environment and cannot login graphically unless I reboot (maybe there
> is a way to recover, but haven't yet bothered to investigate that
> further).
>
> When this happens, I get the message "Failed to execute login command"
> (or something similar) in the middle of the screen in a "graphical"
> big font. After a second or two I see a text console (ctrl-alt-f1?)
> and then back to the "Failed to execute login command".
>
> Anyone else getting these?
>
> The problem "fixes itself" by rebooting. But it's very annoying. I'm
> running nixos unstable with gnome3.12 and lightdm login manager.
>
> Best regards,
> Bjørn Forsman
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