Hello, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
> Turns out that the problem was with a stale /var/lib/gdm – which makes > me wonder: we do we have this at all? “/var/lib/gdm” is the “gdm” user > account’s home directory. But it’s not like this really needs to be > persistent, I think. Yes, I wonder if it’s supposed to be persistent in the first place. I guess ~gdm/.cache can help speed things up maybe, and perhaps there are persistent settings too, like the a18n stuff? > I moved it out of the way and the gdm login prompt appeared within a few > seconds. After restarting xorg-server the directory was recreated. So I moved ~gdm/.cache and ~/.cache out of the way and restarted ‘xorg-server’. After that, I was still unable to log in You removed all of ~gdm, right? ~/.cache/gdm/session.log shows this (the important bit is “killed by signal 11” :-)): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- dbus-daemon[2867]: [session uid=30011 pid=2867] Activating service name='org.gtk.vfs.Daemon' requested by ':1.1' (uid=3 0011 pid=2878 comm="gsettings get org.gnome.system.locale region ") dbus-daemon[2867]: [session uid=30011 pid=2867] Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.Daemon' (process:2887): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 13:46:37.032: g_object_new_with_properties: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (obje ct_type)' failed (process:2887): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 13:46:37.036: g_volume_monitor_get_mounts: assertion 'G_IS_VOLUME_MONITOR (volume _monitor)' failed (process:2887): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 13:46:37.036: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (process:2887): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 13:46:37.036: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instan ce)' failed (process:2887): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 13:46:37.036: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (process:2887): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 13:46:37.036: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instan ce)' failed [...] dbus-daemon[2867]: [session uid=30011 pid=2867] Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.AfcVolumeMonitor' GNOME Shell-Message: 13:46:38.700: No permission to trigger offline updates: Polkit.Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Action org.freedesktop.packagekit.trigger-offline-update is not registered (.gnome-shell-real:2928): mutter-WARNING **: 13:46:38.911: Failed to load background 'file:///gnu/store/ga4arkrdndyv52cs062n2l9hgnqfjyaq-gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.28.0/share/backgrounds/gnome/adwaita-lock.jpg': Erreur lors de l’ouverture du fichier /gnu/store/ga4arkrdndyv52cs062n2l9hgnqfjyaq-gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.28.0/share/backgrounds/gnome/adwaita-lock.jpg : Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type GNOME Shell-Message: 13:46:38.917: Error loading calendars: Erreur lors de l’appel de StartServiceByName pour org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer : GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer exited with status 1 (gsd-rfkill:3033): rfkill-plugin-WARNING **: 13:46:38.951: Error setting up rfkill: Could not open RFKILL control device, please verify your installation (gsd-rfkill:3033): rfkill-plugin-WARNING **: 13:46:38.974: Could not open RFKILL control device, please verify your installation (gsd-sharing:3036): sharing-plugin-WARNING **: 13:46:39.063: Failed to StopUnit service: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.systemd1 was not provided by any .service files (gsd-sharing:3036): sharing-plugin-WARNING **: 13:46:39.063: Failed to StopUnit service: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.systemd1 was not provided by any .service files (gsd-sharing:3036): sharing-plugin-WARNING **: 13:46:39.063: Failed to StopUnit service: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.systemd1 was not provided by any .service files (gsd-sharing:3036): sharing-plugin-WARNING **: 13:46:39.070: Failed to StopUnit service: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.systemd1 was not provided by any .service files gnome-session-binary[2872]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11 (gsd-xsettings:3007): xsettings-plugin-WARNING **: 13:46:39.193: Failed to get current display configuration state: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying (gsd-power:3026): power-plugin-WARNING **: 13:46:39.193: Could not create GnomeRRScreen: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.Mutter.DisplayConfig was not provided by any .service files (gsd-media-keys:3022): GLib-CRITICAL **: 13:46:39.199: g_variant_get_va: assertion 'value != NULL' failed (gsd-media-keys:3022): GLib-CRITICAL **: 13:46:39.199: g_variant_unref: assertion 'value != NULL' failed --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > Yup, after moving /home/rekado/.cache out of the way, everything is fine > and I can log in. Weird. It would be nice to find out what the relevant bits are. If it’s not ~gdm/.cache, then the only things I can see are: .config/ibus/bus/*-unix-0 .config/dconf/user (a binary file, not modified in a while) .config/pulse (unlikely?) .local/share/icc I’ll try again later to selectively remove these files on that machine that runs GNOME. Ludo’.
