Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 May 2014 15:29:34 -0400
> covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
>
> > OK, here is what is happening -- if I do a startx & in any console
> > where I am logged in, I get a gnome session on that tty (wish it was
> > on the unused one), and I seem to be good  to go.  However when I try
> > to use gdm, I no longer get the oh no stuff, but it seems I get a
> > list of some of my userids, but I can't do anything, I can up arrow
> > to one of them, but hitting enter does nothing.  Also, tab does
> > nothing, nor do left/right arrow keys and strangely enough, my name
> > is not among the listed ids.
> >
> > Here is a log segment from start to stop of gdm.
> >
> > https://covici.com/owncloud/public.php?service=files&t=3bae607fe4d5043b325b6339e3672c84
> >
> > I hope someone can make sense of this because after this happened my
> > regular ttys won't scroll once they get to the last line and the only
> > way to solve this problem is to reboot the system.
>
> This might be PAM related:
>
>     gdm-session-worker[4972]: <7>GdmSessionWorker: initializing PAM;
>     service=gdm-password username=krnotley seat=seat0
>     gdm-session-worker[4972]: <7>GdmSessionWorker: Set PAM environment
>     variable: 'XDG_SEAT=seat0'
>     gdm-session-worker[4972]: <7>GdmSessionWorker: 1 new messages
>     received from PAM
>     gdm-session-worker[4972]: <7>GdmSessionWorker: received pam message
>     of type 1 with payload 'Password: '
>     gdm-password][4972]: pam_unix(gdm-password:auth): conversation
>     failed
>     gdm-password][4972]: pam_unix(gdm-password:auth): auth could
>     not identify password for [krnotley]
>     gdm-password][4972]: gkr-pam: no password is available for user
>     gdm-password][4972]: gkr-pam: no password is available for user
>     gdm-session-worker[4972]: <7>GdmSessionWorker: PAM conversation
>     returning 19: Conversation error
>     gdm-session-worker[4972]: <7>GdmSessionWorker: uninitializing PAM
>
> A failing conversation here looks odd to me; so, maybe this krontley
> user is bugged (preventing others from being listed?) or PAM itself
> isn't working properly at all?
>
> Check the following link which can be a possible solution to this:
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd#systemd-logind_.26_pam_systemd
>
> Other than that I see gnome-settings-daemon failing as it exits with
> code 1, but with no clear warning or error; from experience with that,
> that could be a reason to display or usage problems. A way to debug
> this could be to restart it in the shell to catch more output, if any;
> but I'm more suspicious about PAM so try to get PAM fixed first.
>
> It could just as well be failing because you shutdown GDM; it might be
> more clear if you capture a log where you don't shutdown GDM, as then
> the last messages would be much more related to the problem at hand.
OK, here is a link to the messages without me doing anything in gdm at
all, just starting it.

https://covici.com/owncloud/public.php?service=files&t=85cffe78261eacc915379ff5d5449d18

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