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

[Tom Wijsman]

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.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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