Cannot run GDM + Wayland

grneir · 2024-04-15 01:30:49

I am using Gnome with gdm and have installed the Nvidia driver 470 from AUR (GTX660). I followed the standard configuration steps to get a Wayland session, but the session is x11, always. Searching the output of journalctl -b for some traces of rules disabling Wayland, I found the following line instead

kernel: gnome-shell[674]: segfault at ffffffffffffffec ip 000074b8d89ac4d6 sp 00007fffb9e46c90 error 5 in libmutter-14.so.0.0.0[74b8d883b000+19c000] likely on CPU 9 (core 1, socket 0)

after 1 s:

systemd-coredump[1056]: Process 674 (gnome-shell) of user 120 dumped core.

Later, an Xorg session is started.

I can copy the output of journalctl -b if needed.

EDIT: apologies, the desktop thread would have been a better fit for this post.

Adding some configuration info:

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf
MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard keymap consolefont block filesystems fsck)

/etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet nvidia_drm.modeset=1 nvidia.NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 i915.modeset=0"

ls /etc/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules
ls: cannot access '/etc/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules': No such file or directory

Anyway, in the output of journalctl -b the Wayland session starts, thus my configuration should be fine, as far as GDM and Nvidia.
I had a look at this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=251949 but I could not undestand every detail that was discussed there.

Last edited by grneir (2024-04-15 14:07:53)

ewaller · 2024-04-16 03:06:25

Moved, by request

V1del · 2024-04-16 12:00:49

470 predates GBM support in the nvidia driver and I'd not be at all surprised if EGLStreams doesn't get much/any love anymore and you're actually just crashing there somewhere.

grneir · 2024-04-16 21:10:01

Thank you v1dal. I noticed something related to that in the journal. This is the (hopefully) relevant portion of journalctl -b, there are warnings

Apr 16 22:11:29 neith org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1005]: libEGL warning: DRI3: Screen seems not DRI3 capable

and another one after libmutter segfault about being unable to create a dri2 screen (last line in the log).

Apr 16 22:11:28 neith gnome-shell[660]: Running GNOME Shell (using mutter 46.0) as a Wayland display server
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith avahi-daemon[534]: Server startup complete. Host name is neith.local. Local service cookie is 3841134720.
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith systemd[1]: Starting RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service...
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith systemd[1]: Started RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service.
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Successfully called chroot.
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Successfully dropped privileges.
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Successfully limited resources.
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Canary thread running.
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Running.
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Watchdog thread running.
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 0 threads of 0 processes of 0 users.
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 0 threads of 0 processes of 0 users.
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Successfully made thread 678 of process 660 owned by '120' RT at priority 20.
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith gnome-shell[660]: Made thread 'KMS thread' realtime scheduled
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith gnome-shell[660]: Device '/dev/dri/card0' prefers shadow buffer
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith gnome-shell[660]: Added device '/dev/dri/card0' (nvidia-drm) using non-atomic mode setting.
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith gnome-shell[660]: Created egldevice renderer for '/dev/dri/card0'
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith gnome-shell[660]: Boot VGA GPU /dev/dri/card0 selected as primary
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith gnome-shell[660]: Obtained a high priority EGL context
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith gnome-shell[660]: Obtained a high priority EGL context
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Activating service name='org.a11y.Bus' requested by ':1.4' (uid=120 pid=660 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell")
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.Bus'
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith gnome-shell[660]: Using public X11 display :1024, (using :1025 for managed services)
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith gnome-shell[660]: Using Wayland display name 'wayland-0'
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[739]: dbus-daemon[739]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry' requested by ':1.0' (uid=120 pid=660 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell")
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[739]: dbus-daemon[739]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[743]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith systemd[1]: Starting Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles...
Apr 16 22:11:28 neith systemd[1]: Started Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Unset XDG_SESSION_ID, getCurrentSessionProxy() called outside a user session. Asking logind directly.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Will monitor session 1
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith systemd[1]: Starting Locale Service...
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Activating service name='org.gnome.Shell.Screencast' requested by ':1.3' (uid=120 pid=660 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell")
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.impl.portal.PermissionStore' requested by ':1.3' (uid=120 pid=660 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell")
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.impl.portal.PermissionStore'
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith systemd[1]: Started Locale Service.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Activating service name='org.gnome.Shell.Notifications' requested by ':1.3' (uid=120 pid=660 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell")
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Extension apps-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com already installed in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/apps-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com. /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/apps-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com will not be loaded
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Extension auto-move-windows@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com already installed in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/auto-move-windows@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com. /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/auto-move-windows@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com will not be loaded
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Extension drive-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com already installed in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/drive-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com. /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/drive-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com will not be loaded
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Extension launch-new-instance@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com already installed in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/launch-new-instance@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com. /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/launch-new-instance@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com will not be loaded
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Extension light-style@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com already installed in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/light-style@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com. /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/light-style@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com will not be loaded
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Extension native-window-placement@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com already installed in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/native-window-placement@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com. /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/native-window-placement@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com will not be loaded
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Extension places-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com already installed in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/places-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com. /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/places-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com will not be loaded
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Extension screenshot-window-sizer@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com already installed in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/screenshot-window-sizer@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com. /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/screenshot-window-sizer@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com will not be loaded
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Extension system-monitor@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com already installed in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/system-monitor@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com. /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/system-monitor@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com will not be loaded
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Extension user-theme@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com already installed in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/user-theme@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com. /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/user-theme@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com will not be loaded
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Extension window-list@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com already installed in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/window-list@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com. /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/window-list@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com will not be loaded
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Extension windowsNavigator@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com already installed in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/windowsNavigator@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com. /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/windowsNavigator@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com will not be loaded
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Extension workspace-indicator@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com already installed in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/workspace-indicator@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com. /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/workspace-indicator@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com will not be loaded
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith org.gnome.Shell.desktop[660]: Window manager warning: Failed to parse saved session file: Failed to open file “/var/lib/gdm/.config/mutter/sessions/10b122ccb74143b144171329828814086200000006410000.ms”: No such file or directory
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith systemd[1]: Starting Daemon for power management...
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith kernel: rfkill: input handler disabled
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Shell.Notifications'
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.9' (uid=120 pid=786 comm="/usr/lib/gsd-sharing")
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gsd-sharing[786]: Failed to StopUnit service: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gsd-sharing[786]: Failed to StopUnit service: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.portal.IBus' requested by ':1.26' (uid=120 pid=835 comm="ibus-daemon --panel disable")
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.portal.IBus'
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith polkitd[598]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:1 (system bus name :1.17 [/usr/bin/gnome-shell], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-shell[660]: Error looking up permission: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.NotFound: No entry for geolocation
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith systemd[1]: Started Daemon for power management.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith NetworkManager[533]: <info>  [1713298289.3160] agent-manager: agent[2b3d6792af36ab6e,:1.17/org.gnome.Shell.NetworkAgent/120]: agent registered
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith systemd[621]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith systemd[1]: Starting Location Lookup Service...
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith systemd[621]: Started Multimedia Service Session Manager.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith systemd[621]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 0 threads of 0 processes of 1 users.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 0 threads of 0 processes of 1 users.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 0 threads of 0 processes of 1 users.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Successfully made thread 989 of process 989 owned by '120' high priority at nice level -11.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Successfully made thread 1008 of process 989 owned by '120' RT at priority 20.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith wireplumber[998]: 0x563720769810: no modules loaded from context.modules
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Successfully made thread 1000 of process 1000 owned by '120' high priority at nice level -11.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 3 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 3 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 3 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 3 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Successfully made thread 998 of process 998 owned by '120' high priority at nice level -11.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 4 threads of 3 processes of 1 users.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Successfully made thread 1017 of process 1000 owned by '120' RT at priority 20.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith rtkit-daemon[679]: Supervising 5 threads of 3 processes of 1 users.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1023]: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1023]: > Warning:          Unsupported maximum keycode 708, clipping.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1023]: >                   X11 cannot support keycodes above 255.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1023]: > Warning:          Could not resolve keysym XF86KbdInputAssistPrevgrou
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1023]: > Warning:          Could not resolve keysym XF86KbdInputAssistNextgrou
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1023]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Shell.Screencast'
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1005]: libEGL warning: DRI3: Screen seems not DRI3 capable
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1005]: libEGL warning: DRI3: Screen seems not DRI3 capable
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gnome-session-binary[641]: Entering running state
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.portal.IBus' requested by ':1.34' (uid=120 pid=1012 comm="ibus-daemon --panel disable -r --xim")
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith xbrlapi.desktop[1036]: openConnection: connect: No such file or directory
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith xbrlapi.desktop[1036]: cannot connect to braille devices daemon brltty at :0
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.portal.IBus'
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gsd-media-keys[816]: Failed to grab accelerator for keybinding settings:playback-repeat
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith gsd-media-keys[816]: Failed to grab accelerator for keybinding settings:hibernate
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Activating service name='org.gnome.ScreenSaver' requested by ':1.24' (uid=120 pid=874 comm="/usr/lib/gsd-power")
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith systemd[1]: Starting WPA supplicant...
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith systemd[1]: Started WPA supplicant.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith wpa_supplicant[1037]: Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith systemd[1]: Started Location Lookup Service.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith kernel: gnome-shell[660]: segfault at ffffffffffffffec ip 00007260e95ac4d6 sp 00007ffe59fe9770 error 5 in libmutter-14.so.0.0.0[7260e943b000+19c000] likely on CPU 10 (core 2, socket 0)
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith kernel: Code: fe ff ff 49 89 47 50 4c 89 e8 4d 85 ed 0f 84 01 0a 00 00 48 89 c7 ff 15 d0 57 0d 00 4d 8b 6f 50 48 63 05 41 b8 0d 00 4c 89 ef <41> 8b 44 05 0c 85 c0 75 19 49 8b 45 00 48 8d b5 e8 fe ff ff ff 90
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith systemd[1]: Created slice Slice /system/systemd-coredump.
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 1076/UID 0).
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[640]: dbus-daemon[640]: [session uid=120 pid=640] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.ScreenSaver'
Apr 16 22:11:29 neith org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1005]: libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen

grneir · 2024-04-17 22:29:47

If indeed eglstream is the cause, would trying another Wayland compositor give me better chances?

V1del · 2024-04-18 13:09:57

Not really, GNOME is basically the only one that implemented this... "maybe" Weston but afaik that's not really intended for a daily driver. The best bet if you want wayland on this kind of GPU is using nouveau.

grneir · 2024-04-20 10:51:29

Thank you v1dal. I will accept one cannot hope to use newer software on older hardware indefinitely.

I have another installation of Arch on a USB-C SSD with nouveau, I will use that one to experiment with Wayland.

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Cannot run GDM + Wayland

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Re: Cannot run GDM + Wayland

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Re: Cannot run GDM + Wayland

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Re: Cannot run GDM + Wayland

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Re: Cannot run GDM + Wayland

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Re: Cannot run GDM + Wayland

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Re: Cannot run GDM + Wayland

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