The gdm display manager seems to work fine for me as long as build it with USE="-systemd" (as I'm not using systemd). It starts my desktop session fine, but I see the following in "/var/log/:0-slave.log": gdm-simple-slave[3208]: Failed to give slave programs access to the display. Trying to proceed. gdm-simple-slave[3208]: Could not run helper: Failed to execute child process " (No such file or directory) gdm-simple-slave[3208]: Could not run helper: Failed to execute child process "/usr/libexec/ck-get-x11-display-device" (No such file or directory) gdm-password][3770]: pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session opened for user abbotti by (unknown)(uid=0) gdm-password][3770]: pam_ck_connector(gdm-password:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0 gdm-password][3770]: gkr-pam: the password for the login keyring was invalid. gdm-simple-slave[3208]: Failed to remove slave program access to the display. Trying to proceed. gdm-simple-slave[3208]: Child process -3446 was already dead. It seems it has the wrong path for "ck-get-x11-display-device" which is actually at "/usr/lib/ConsoleKit/ck-get-x11-display-device" on my system (from "sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.6") Reproducible: Always $ emerge --info gnome-base/gdm sys-auth/consolekit Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.8.2, glibc-2.17, 3.13.0-gentoo-ija1 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.13.0-gentoo-ija1-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_3800+-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 4046476 total, 1884212 free KiB Swap: 8418024 total, 8418024 free Timestamp of tree: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45-r1 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.6, 3.3.3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.1-r3 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4, 1.14.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.6-r1, 4.4.7, 4.5.4, 4.6.4, 4.7.3-r1, 4.8.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.12 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.17 Repositories: gentoo Local_portage_overlay Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi adns alsa amd64 avahi berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cgi 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sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.6 was built with the following: USE="acl doc pam policykit -debug (-selinux) -systemd-units -test"
Perhaps gdm's configure script should be run with the option: --with-consolekit-directory=/usr/lib/ConsoleKit I don't know if it depends on the consolekit version but consolekit-0.4.6 is both the latest version in portage and stable.
Just for fun, I added this configure option to src_configure() in the ebuild: --with-consolekit-directory="${EPREFIX}/usr/lib/ConsoleKit" \ Then rebuilt gdm and rebooted. Now I get this in "/var/log/:0-slave.log": gdm-simple-slave[3205]: Failed to give slave programs access to the display. Trying to proceed. gdm-password][3755]: pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session opened for user abbotti by (uid=0) gdm-password][3755]: pam_ck_connector(gdm-password:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0 gdm-password][3755]: gkr-pam: the password for the login keyring was invalid. gdm-simple-slave[3205]: Failed to remove slave program access to the display. Trying to proceed. That looks like a slight improvement in the number of error messages, but I don't think it makes much real difference. I'm guessing that pam_ck_connector was really expecting PAM_TTY to be something like "/dev/tty7" rather than ":0"? (On the whole, I think I'll go back to using lightdm instead of gdm as it seems to start up quicker.)
Wow. I was under impression upstream removed ConsoleKit support from GDM in 3.8?! If that's not the case, this should be fixed asap! See bug 461866, it was already fixed once... and the fix got dropped?
+ 01 Feb 2014; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> gdm-3.10.0.1.ebuild, + gdm-3.8.4-r3.ebuild: + Fix consolekit paths (#499434 by Ian Abbott) + The paths were wrong indeed... but I don't fully understand if you are able to login even with the last warnings :/
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #4) > The paths were wrong indeed... but I don't fully understand if you are able > to login even with the last warnings :/ Yes, I can login even with those warnings!
Per: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702588 Looks like it's a harmless message
I guess we can close this until upstream finally hides that message ;)
