That seems to have stopped GNOME from starting at all. I just have a terminal login prompt now. Trying to revert…
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Tried removing the changes but got an error …
Canceled: File is empty
When trying to save (or similar).
I saved it by replacing the changed stuff with a comment like this…
#Comment here
Which then got my DE back up after a reboot so I could look around, then found this…
systemctl revert gdm.service
which is supposed to reset the unit changes properly. After another reboot all is still working and loading up OK (although I had to reset my background wallpaper - odd).
I then tried the concept again with some minor changes following some Google trawling…
[Service]
ExecStartPre=-/bin/sleep 1
The - is supposed to make it so it doesn’t matter if it fails (so this may just be doing nothing) and I wasn’t sure if the duplication of ExecStart=/usr/bin/gdm was problematic at all.
It boots, whether I actually effectively achieved anything or not is a completely different question…
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Maybe it just slows it down a fraction of a second but long enough to make it work…
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Tty2 is reserved in gnome. Try TTY3 instead (F3 instead of F2)
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