Looking into possible known issues for at-spi or gnome-terminal-server did not bring up anything useful for me.
FTR: Installing xfce4 or kde both gives me a working desktop. So this might actually be a GNOME issue rather than an X issue, or an interaction of the two. On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Michael Hanke <michael.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Update: > > I stopped the gdm3 service and started a freshly installed slim login > manager. I comes right up, no issues. > > Starting the GNOME session from slim, however, results in immediate > failure. This is syslog from the last message of slim to the X server > shutdown: > > Nov 4 09:49:56 meiner slim[8940]: /usr/bin/X11/xauth: file > /home/mih/.Xauthority does not exist > Nov 4 09:49:56 meiner org.a11y.Bus[9347]: Activating service > name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry' > Nov 4 09:49:56 meiner org.a11y.Bus[9347]: Successfully activated > service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry' > Nov 4 09:49:56 meiner org.a11y.atspi.Registry[9373]: SpiRegistry > daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry > Nov 4 09:49:56 meiner gnome-terminal-[9379]: gnome-terminal-server: > Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0. > Nov 4 09:49:56 meiner org.a11y.atspi.Registry[9373]: XIO: fatal IO > error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" > Nov 4 09:49:56 meiner org.a11y.atspi.Registry[9373]: after 21 > requests (19 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > Nov 4 09:49:56 meiner org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[9347]: A connection to the > bus can't be made > Nov 4 09:49:58 meiner kernel: [ 249.268908] [drm] Reducing the > compressed framebuffer size. This may lead to less power savings than > a non-reduced-size. Try to increase stolen memory size if available in > BIOS. > Nov 4 09:49:58 meiner slim[8940]: (II) Server terminated successfully > (0). Closing log file. > > On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Michael Hanke <michael.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> same here, after upgrade to buster no X anymore. Normal start works, but >> ends at terminal login. Manual startx makes the screen flicker briefly, then >> back to terminal. X log contain no errors (EE). >> >> Downgrade to stretch didn't change the situation in any way. Going back from >> linux 4.13 to 4.8 had no effect either. >> >> During downgrade gconf2 choked (triggers hung and never completed). During >> upgrade I think I saw some gconf error message too, but I cannot find a >> trace of them anywhere. >> >> Any advice would be highly appreciated. >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Michael >> > > > > -- > Michael Hanke > http://psychoinformatics.de -- Michael Hanke http://psychoinformatics.de
