Since I upgraded to >=gnome-base/gdm-3, it starts (I'm switched from the terminal VT to the X11 VT) but only the mouse spinning is shown, it never finishes to load (i.e. showing the greeter and such). Neither the xorg logs nor the gdm logs show any error or cause of why is not loading. Any tip on how to debug this? Reproducible: Always
Please attach /var/log/gdm/:0.log, /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log, and /var/log/gdm/:0-slave.log - perhaps one of them has a useful error message that you missed.
Created attachment 301675 [details] /var/log/gdm/:0.log
I do not have any /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log and /var/log/gdm/:0-slave.log is completely empty.
Please give the output of "ps aux | grep gdm" when gdm is frozen.
Created attachment 301681 [details] ps aux | grep gdm
OK, please do the following: 1. re-emerge dev-libs/glib and gnome-base/gdm with "-ggdb" in CFLAGS and "splitdebug" in FEATURES (see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml for more information). 2. install sys-devel/gdb if you don't have it already 3. restart gdm (/etc/init.d/gdm restart) 4. when you see the spinning cursor, run "gdb attach $(pgrep gdm-session-worker)" 5. in gdb, do "set logging on" 6. in gdb, do "t a a bt full"; keep pressing enter until you get back to the "(gdb)" prompt. 7. in gdb, type "quit" to exit (and answer "y" to quit anyway if prompted). 8. rename gdb.txt to gdm-session-worker.gdb.txt 9. repeat the same process for gdm-simple-slave (i.e. "gdb attach $(pgrep gdm-simple-slave)" etc.) 10. attach gdm-session-worker.gdb.txt and gdm-simple-slave.gdb.txt here. 11. if you are using any sort of customized or non-standard pam configuration, please explain it in detail.
Created attachment 301695 [details] gdb-session-worker
Created attachment 301697 [details] gdb-simple-slave
As for 11, I do not use (or I do not remember of) doing anything with PAM, I just login an start doing things on my GNOME desktop.
Unfortunately, even with the backtraces, I can't figure out what would cause the issue you are experiencing :/ Hopefully, gdm's upstream developers will be able to help you. Please file a new bug in the gnome bugzilla (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gdm), include the URL for this bug in the new bug's description, attach the "ps aux" output and the gdb backtraces you made, and add "gnome@gentoo.org" to the new bug's CC list so that Gentoo developers can keep track of it.
Thanks for your promptly support! I already filed a bug on GNOME's bugzilla: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669949 Let's see what GDM developers can say about it :)
Turns out that adding a line on /etc/passwd for gdm (which there wasn't did the trick). I added exactly this: gdm:!:152490:::::: The number is a random one I copied the line from colord user and added a zero to it.
Same problem for me on ~amd64... This is came suddenly... For the moment, waiting for an issue, I have replaced gdm by slim.. emerge --info Portage 2.1.10.49 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r2, 3.2.9-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.2.9-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_920_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:45:01 +0000 ccache version 3.1.7 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.2.2 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.7 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.7-r5 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.9.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.5.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.2-r1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.14.1-r2 Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage 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Did you tried to add a password for gdm user as per comment 12?
(In reply to comment #14) > Did you tried to add a password for gdm user as per comment 12? I'm sorry... As my english is bad, I did not understand that add a password for gdm user solved the problem for you... Indeed I've copied the same line with you and that's worked fine ! thanks
I'm having the following in /etc/passwd: gdm:x:105:1008:added by portage for gdm:/var/lib/gdm:/sbin/nologin and still the same problem which surprisingly for me is an "UNCONFIRMED" bug here as well as in the upstream bugtracker. Replacing the line with the short variant from comment #12 will have starting the init script /etc/init.d/xdm complain about not finding a "gdm" user...
I have the same issue. The old gdm line in /etc/passwd was: gdm:x:32:32:GDM:/var/lib/gdm:/bin/false I replaced according to comment 12 with: gdm:!:152490:::::: But gdm shows only the spinning cursor. If I switcht to console 1, I see gdm[16856]: CRITICAL: Can't find the GDM user 'gdm'. Aborting! gdm[16856]: CRITICAL: The GDM user should not be root. Aborting! If I do 'startx', I do not have any problems. I have /var/log/gdm/:0.log and /var/log/gdm/:0-slave.log: root@grizzly:/root(16)# ll /var/log/gdm/:0.log /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log /var/log/gdm/:0-slave.log /bin/ls: cannot access /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log: No such file or directory -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36782 Apr 9 16:56 /var/log/gdm/:0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 Apr 9 16:53 /var/log/gdm/:0-slave.log In /var/log/gdm/:0-slave.log I see: gdm-simple-slave[16858]: WARNING: Failed to give slave programs access to the display. Trying to proceed. gdm-simple-slave[16858]: WARNING: Unable to parse output: gdm-simple-slave[16858]: WARNING: Unable to parse D-Bus launch output /var/log/gdm/:0.log var_log_gdm_0.log is attached. 'ps aux | grep gdm' says: root@grizzly:/root(22)# ps aux | grep gdm root 16857 0.0 0.0 61688 2120 ? Ssl 16:53 0:00 gdm root 16858 0.0 0.1 131692 6144 ? Sl 16:53 0:00 /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display1 root 17229 1.8 0.9 441816 36936 pts/0 S 16:59 0:05 emacs -i -geometry 81x61 we /var/log/gdm/:0.log root 17286 3.0 0.8 440432 35596 pts/0 S 17:01 0:04 emacs -i -geometry 81x61 -name :0-slave.log /var/log/gdm/:0-slave.log root 17308 0.0 0.0 10860 888 pts/0 S+ 17:04 0:00 grep --colour=auto gdm
Created attachment 308307 [details] /var/log/gdm/:0.log var_log_gdm_0.log
Very very strange... This workaround did the trick for me until yesterday (see comment 15)... Yesterday I've emerged polkit-0.106, and at the next boot, no more gdm greeter ! Then I think that's maybe the added line "gdm:!:152490::::::" no more needed, so I removed it from my /etc/passwd. But gdm still not load. So I've decided to downgrad to polkit-0.105, and reboot my computer without the famous line "gdm:!:152490::::::" in my /etc/passwd (I've just forgotten to edit the file..) and gdm start. In conclusion now, my gdm works whithout this workaround I've tested to upgrade to polkit-0.106 again but definitively don't work, so i came back to polkit-0.105.
Upgrade to polkit-0.106-r2 solved the problem for me
Same problem. Actually i have polkit-106-r2 but no effect for blackscreen
i added gdm:!:152490:::::: to /etc/passwd instead of "gdm:x:104:101:added by portage for gdm:/var/lib/gdm:/sbin/nologin" but with no effect. 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--delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/zugaina" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X X509 aac acl acpi adplug alsa amd64 amr apng audio audiofile bash-completion bazaar berkdb bluetooth bluray bzip2 cairo cdaudio cdda cdparanoia cdr cdrom cdrtools chm cli consolekit cpudetection cracklib crypt cscope css ctype cuda cue cups curl custom-optimization cxx dbus device-mapper dhclient djvu dri dvd dvdr emerald enca encode exif extras fbdev ffmpeg fftw filter firefox firefox3 flac flash fluidsynth flv fontconfig fortran frei0r ftp fuse g3dvl gcj gconf gd gdbm gdu gif git glitz gmp gnome gnome-keyring gnutls google gpm gsm gstreamer gtk gtk3 gudev hddtemp hwdb i18n iconv icq icu id3 id3tag imagemagick imlib ios iphone ipod iproute2 iptables ipv6 ithreads jabber jack java jbig jpeg jpeg2k jpg kdrive kerberos kvm lame libmpeg2 libnotify lm_sensors lzma lzo macvtap mad midi mmx mng modules mp3 mpeg mpg123 mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz mysql nautilus ncurses nls nokia nptl nsplugins nss ntfs ntfs-3g ogg opencv opengl openmp optimization pam pcre pdf perl png policykit pppd pulseaudio python qemu qmake qt3support qt4 radio rar rdesktop-vrdp readline reiserfs ru ruby19 samba sasl sdk sdl secure-delete session sip skype slang smp sndfile snmp sockets sox speex sql sqlite sse sse2 ssh ssl stream subversion svg symlink syslog system-sqlite taglib tcpd tga theora threads tiff timidity truetype udev unicode unlock-notify unzip upnp usb utp vaapi vde vdpau vim-syntax virt-network vnc vorbis wav wavpack webkit wma wmf x264 xcb xinerama xml xorg xterm xulrunner xvfb xvid youtube zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-nvidia hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CURL_SSL="nss" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" 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Downgraded to polkit-105, and gdm working again.
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file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon v4l r600" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON ---8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<---
OK, I'd _definitely_ give a look at the "tmpfs-mounted dirs" lead: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7066876.html#7066876
Did you follow the warning in the elog ? "If home directory of unix-user "polkitd" is set to /dev/null, run: │ │# usermod -d /var/lib/polkit-1 polkitd " Because this warning didn't help me with the version until polkit-0.106-r1 but did with the -0.106-r2...
comment 27 totally fixed it for me. i was bashing my head against this for a good three hours and i didn't even think to check the elogs of the things emerged over the past day. HAH, serves me right for doing unattended emerge -uDNv world's. :/ BUT, fixed. thanks, gil.
(sigh) wow. yes, i AM that tired. corrections: 1. comment 26, not comment 27 was the fix for me. 2. thanks gil for REPORTING, and i also forgot to thank gglaboussole for providing the information that FIXED it for me.
I have a system with sys-auth/polkit-0.106-r2 and /dev/null as home directory for polkitd where I just succesfully logged in via gdm: root@condor:/root(2)# qlist -Iv polkit gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.102 gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.105 kde-misc/polkit-kde-kcmodules-0.98_pre20101127 sys-auth/polkit-0.106-r2 sys-auth/polkit-kde-agent-0.99.0 sys-auth/polkit-qt-0.103.0 root@condor:/root(3)# uname -a Linux condor 3.4.3 #1 SMP Thu Jun 21 11:22:44 CEST 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux root@condor:/root(4)# ps -ef | grep gdm | grep -v grep root@condor:/root(5)# grep polkit /etc/passwd polkituser:x:121:1022:added by portage for policykit:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin polkitd:x:141:998:added by portage for polkit:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin And I have an other system with polkit-0.106-r2 and /var/lib/polkit-1 as home directory for polkitd, where I can't login via gdm (I get only the spinning cursor): root@grizzly:/root(8)# qlist -Iv polkit gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.102 gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.105 kde-misc/polkit-kde-kcmodules-0.98_pre20101127 sys-auth/polkit-0.106-r2 sys-auth/polkit-kde-agent-0.99.0 sys-auth/polkit-qt-0.103.0 [1]+ Done compare_conf_files root@grizzly:/root(9)# uname -a Linux grizzly 3.3.8 #1 PREEMPT Thu Jun 21 18:39:05 CEST 2012 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux root@grizzly:/root(12)# ps -ef | grep gdm | grep -v grep root 11617 1 0 00:02 ? 00:00:00 gdm root 11618 11617 0 00:02 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display1 root 11620 11618 0 00:02 tty7 00:00:00 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -verbose -logverbose 7 -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-bXC9BJ/database -nolisten tcp vt7 gdm 11643 1 0 00:02 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session root 11644 11618 0 00:02 ? 00:00:00 gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-welcome] root@grizzly:/root(14)# grep polkit /etc/passwd polkituser:x:130:1218:added by portage for policykit:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin polkitd:x:141:997:added by portage for polkit:/var/lib/polkit-1:/sbin/nologin root@grizzly:/root(15)# ll /var/lib/polkit-1 total 0 root@grizzly:/root(16)# ll -t /var/log/gdm/ total 200 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36460 Jun 22 00:12 :0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 22 00:02 :0-slave.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37136 Jun 22 00:02 :0.log.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 21 23:47 :0-slave.log.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37076 Jun 12 16:33 :0.log.2
Same here, not fixed with polkit-0.106-r2 and /var/lib/polkit-1 as home, black screen with spinning cursor.
I was experiencing the same. After spending a while getting udisks & upower to work in openbox, which I finally did, I tried gnome again and no more black screen w/ spinning cursor. There were some package updates... emerge -1avD --noconfmem udev dbus-glib consolekit pambase shadow But what finally got me up and running over there was chmod o+x /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper For those still with an issue, I would try the chmod first to see if that fixes it.
Tried everything listed here - but still no greeter! gdm-3.4.1 polkit-107
Even on a freshly installed system it does not start. But I get tons of those in /var/log/gdm/:1-slave.log : . . . gdm-simple-slave[5716]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_ref: assertion `object->ref_count > 0' failed gdm-simple-slave[5716]: DEBUG(+): GdmSimpleSlave: Stopping simple_slave gdm-simple-slave[5716]: DEBUG(+): GdmSlave: Stopping slave gdm-simple-slave[5716]: DEBUG(+): GdmSimpleSlave: Stopping greeter gdm-simple-slave[5716]: DEBUG(+): GdmSimpleSlave: Greeter stopped gdm-simple-slave[5716]: DEBUG(+): GdmSlave: stopping slave . . .
So I hit this with gdm-3.4.1-r1, when Gnome 3.4.1 hit unstable (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-936336-highlight-gdm.html). Here is my emerge line for gdm prior: [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gdm-3.4.1-r1 USE="consolekit fallback gnome-keyring gnome-shell introspection ipv6 ldap tcpd xinerama xklavier -accessibility -audit -debug -fprint -plymouth (-selinux) -smartcard -systemd {-test}" 0 kB I found when I built GDM with 'USE="-ldap" emerge gdm', it was able to load and operate fine. I do use LDAP for AuthN and AuthZ (pam.d/system-auth adjusted accordingly), however I did not have to change any of this, and I was still able to hit "Not Listed?" and type my user/pass, and it logged me in perfectly fine. So, for those running into this, do you have ldap on your gdm USE line?
(In reply to comment #34) Yup, disabling LDAP use flag for gnome-base/gdm fixed this for me. Thanks! I strace -ff'ed this to try and find out what was going on; to find Xorg repeating select(256, NULL, NULL, ...) repeatedly so it was waiting for something that wasn't happening. I was dumb and deleted those output files and started reverting versions and trying different nsswitch.conf settings (I also use {nss,pam}_ldap and figured this was part of the problem; no avail). Nothing useful was logged to gdm/:0*, messages, or Xorg.0.log. startx worked as a regular user. My passwd for polkitd already had the proper home directory, my passwd contained the standard portage generated gdm (see comment 16's post), and this only broke recently with the update to gdm (but reverting to an old quickpkg didn't fix the problem). Either way, disabling ldap for the package fixed the problem. Thanks again!
On one box I have, I'm experiencing the symptoms described in this bug since I've upgraded to gdm-3.x (starting with 3.2.x). None of the solutions worked for me so far. I never found any hint on what could have gone wrong. Until today: I updated my system and switched to gnome-base/gdm-3.6.2. Now I can see the following entries in journalctl: .... Jan 10 23:12:34 dallben dbus-daemon[2733]: dbus[2733]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.5" (uid=0 pid=2737 comm="/usr/bin/gdm --nodaemon ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.8" (uid=0 pid=2756 comm="/usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gn") Jan 10 23:12:34 dallben dbus[2733]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.5" (uid=0 pid=2737 comm="/usr/bin/gdm --nodaemon ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.8" (uid=0 pid=2756 comm="/usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gn") .... Jan 10 23:12:40 dallben gdm-simple-slave[2756]: WARNING: Failed to give slave programs access to the display. Trying to proceed. .... The last message is also repeated in /var/log/gdm/\:0-slave.log (which was formerly empty). Does anyone have any clue what could go wrong here? Any additional info needed? Btw the only "difference" to all my other boxes, where I run the gdm-3.x successfully, is that this box was installed in 2005 where all the others were installed 2008 and later. So I suspect a bit, that I might have an old setting somewhere, which triggers my problem. Any tip is welcome! # emerge --info gdm Portage 2.1.11.31 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.7.1 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.7.1-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3400+-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:00:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.6 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r3 Repositories: gentoo jmhengens-playground ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="${EPREFIX}/etc/gconf /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /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=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/opt/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude='/lost+found'" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --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.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 aac aacplus aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 amr apache2 archive avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli clutter colord cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dirac doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr eds encode exif flac foomaticdb fortran fpx ftp gdbm gif gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gpm graphviz grilo gstreamer gtk gtk3 guile iconv imap introspection ipv6 jabber jack java6 javascript jbig joystick jpeg jpeg2k latex lcms libass libcaca libnotify libv4l libwww lirc lzma lzo mad matroska midi mime mms mmx mmxext mng modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz mysql mysqli nas nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls nocd nptl nsplugin ogg openal openexr opengl openmp opus pam pcre pdf perl php png policykit postscript ppds pppd pulseaudio quicktime raw readline scanner schroedinger sendto session sndfile speex spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg systemd sysvipc tcpd theora tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upnp upnp-av usb v4l v4l2 vcd vdpau videos vim-syntax vorbis vp8 vpx webkit webm webp wma wmf x264 xine xinerama xml xmpp xosd xpm xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile \ authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="canon ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" DRACUT_MODULES="mdraid systemd" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer pdfimport" LINGUAS="en de fr ja" LIRC_DEVICES="hauppauge hauppauge_dvb" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19" SANE_BACKENDS="hp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau radeon r300" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, USE_PYTHON ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= gnome-base/gdm-3.6.2 was built with the following: USE="gnome-shell introspection ipv6 systemd tcpd xinerama -accessibility -audit -consolekit -debug -fallback -fprint -ldap -plymouth (-selinux) -smartcard -test"
(In reply to comment #36) > On one box I have, I'm experiencing the symptoms described in this bug since > I've upgraded to gdm-3.x (starting with 3.2.x). None of the solutions worked > for me so far. I never found any hint on what could have gone wrong. Until > today: I updated my system and switched to gnome-base/gdm-3.6.2. Now I can > see the following entries in journalctl: > > .... > Jan 10 23:12:34 dallben dbus-daemon[2733]: dbus[2733]: [system] Rejected > send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.5" (uid=0 > pid=2737 comm="/usr/bin/gdm --nodaemon ") > interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error > name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.8" (uid=0 pid=2756 > comm="/usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gn") > Jan 10 23:12:34 dallben dbus[2733]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 > matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.5" (uid=0 pid=2737 > comm="/usr/bin/gdm --nodaemon ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" > member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.8" > (uid=0 pid=2756 comm="/usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gn") > .... > Jan 10 23:12:40 dallben gdm-simple-slave[2756]: WARNING: Failed to give > slave programs access to the display. Trying to proceed. > .... > > The last message is also repeated in /var/log/gdm/\:0-slave.log (which was > formerly empty). > > Does anyone have any clue what could go wrong here? Any additional info > needed? Btw the only "difference" to all my other boxes, where I run the > gdm-3.x successfully, is that this box was installed in 2005 where all the > others were installed 2008 and later. So I suspect a bit, that I might have > an old setting somewhere, which triggers my problem. > > Any tip is welcome! This may come from quite a few places. Recent gdm need to be in the video group, to have a real home in /var/lib/gdm etc. I suggest you start comparing user/group/permissions between your computers, if the problem is not there, I think you will have to visit us on irc to help diagnose the problem faster.
(In reply to comment #37) > This may come from quite a few places. Recent gdm need to be in the video > group, to have a real home in /var/lib/gdm etc. I suggest you start > comparing user/group/permissions between your computers, if the problem is > not there, I think you will have to visit us on irc to help diagnose the > problem faster. Sorry for taking so long to reply - Unfortunately none of your suggestions helped (gdm was already in the video group, /var/lib/gdm exists, compared the two boxes). I will try to resolve this issue on irc when I have some time.
I hit similar issue with gdm-3.8 but didn't notice it before because it doesn't occur when X have been started before gdm either with xdm or startx :S No idea what is occurring and how to debug this, I only see a bunch of shit logged at the end of logs (some strange characters) Any ideas?
I see: WARNING: Failed to give slave programs access to the display. Trying to proceed. in /var/log/gdm/:0-slave.log Looks similar to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873082
Not sure if it could be an Xorg problem in my case: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62141
It is a X11 problem in my case: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464842 This shows me this bug had a lot of different issues (even showing similar behaviors) mixed and, then, I will close this bug. Affected people: please unmask Gnome 3.8 and test with gdm-3.8.x and, if still failing, open new bug reports (as probably there are various different causes showing similar problems)
