[Solved] Login freezing with busy mouse cursor and black screen.

PTBM133A4X · 2012-11-26 23:57:39

After installing some recent updates I have suddenly found a problem when starting the login manager for Cinnamon.

After booting I am greeted with a black screen and a "busy" mouse cursor - like a stopwatch. I can't ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X.

What fixes it is - if I ctrl-alt-F2 to a new console and kill -9 the Xorg process. This causes X to restart normally. I have to do this every time now

I don't know if this is systemd related or what, but it only seemed to happen after the updates below.

[2012-11-23 21:32] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2012-11-23 21:32] synchronizing package lists
[2012-11-23 21:33] Running 'pacman -S -u'
[2012-11-23 21:33] starting full system upgrade
[2012-11-23 21:35] upgraded accountsservice (0.6.25-1 -> 0.6.29-1)
[2012-11-23 21:35] upgraded calibre (0.9.6-2 -> 0.9.7-1)
[2012-11-23 21:35] upgraded cronie (1.4.8-3 -> 1.4.8-4)
[2012-11-23 21:35] upgraded dhcpcd (5.6.2-1 -> 5.6.3-2)
[2012-11-23 21:35] upgraded firefox (16.0.2-1 -> 17.0-1)
[2012-11-23 21:35] upgraded firefox-adblock-plus (2.1.2-1 -> 2.2.1-3)
[2012-11-23 21:35] upgraded firefox-i18n-en-gb (16.0.2-1 -> 17.0-1)
[2012-11-23 21:35] upgraded gnome-mplayer (1.0.7-1 -> 1.0.7-2)
[2012-11-23 21:35] upgraded gstreamer (1.0.2-1 -> 1.0.3-1)
[2012-11-23 21:35] upgraded gst-plugins-base-libs (1.0.2-1 -> 1.0.3-1)
[2012-11-23 21:35] upgraded gst-plugins-bad (1.0.2-1 -> 1.0.3-1)
[2012-11-23 21:35] upgraded gst-plugins-base (1.0.2-1 -> 1.0.3-1)
[2012-11-23 21:35] upgraded gst-plugins-good (1.0.2-1 -> 1.0.3-1)
[2012-11-23 21:36] upgraded harfbuzz (0.9.5-2 -> 0.9.6-1)
[2012-11-23 21:36] upgraded libsecret (0.11-1 -> 0.12-2)
[2012-11-23 21:36] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2012-11-23 21:36] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio.  Please wait...
[2012-11-23 21:36] ==> Building image from preset: 'default'
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-11-23 21:36] ==> Starting build: 3.6.7-1-ARCH
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> Running build hook: [base]
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> Running build hook: [pata]
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> Running build hook: [scsi]
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> Running build hook: [sata]
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> Running build hook: [usbinput]
[2012-11-23 21:36] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-11-23 21:36] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-11-23 21:36] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-11-23 21:36] ==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2012-11-23 21:36] ==> Starting build: 3.6.7-1-ARCH
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> Running build hook: [base]
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> Running build hook: [pata]
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> Running build hook: [scsi]
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> Running build hook: [sata]
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2012-11-23 21:36]   -> Running build hook: [usbinput]
[2012-11-23 21:36] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-11-23 21:36] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2012-11-23 21:36] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-11-23 21:36] upgraded linux (3.6.6-1 -> 3.6.7-1)
[2012-11-23 21:36] upgraded logrotate (3.8.2-1 -> 3.8.2-2)
[2012-11-23 21:36] upgraded ntfs-3g (2012.1.15-3 -> 2012.1.15-4)
[2012-11-23 21:36] upgraded ntfsprogs (2012.1.15-3 -> 2012.1.15-4)
[2012-11-23 21:36] installed gtkglext (1.2.0-9)
[2012-11-23 21:36] upgraded opencv (2.4.3-2 -> 2.4.3-3)
[2012-11-23 21:36] upgraded shadow (4.1.5.1-1 -> 4.1.5.1-2)
[2012-11-23 21:36] upgraded thunderbird (16.0.2-1 -> 17.0-1)
[2012-11-23 21:36] upgraded thunderbird-i18n-en-gb (16.0.2-1 -> 17.0-1)
[2012-11-23 21:36] Updating font cache... done.
[2012-11-23 21:36] upgraded ttf-liberation (2.00.1-1 -> 2.00.1-2)
[2012-11-23 21:36] upgraded vi (1:050325-2 -> 1:050325-3)
[2012-11-23 21:40] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-john/PKGDEST.mEd/dirsyncpro-1.45-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-11-23 21:40] upgraded dirsyncpro (1.44-1 -> 1.45-1)
[2012-11-23 21:44] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-john/PKGDEST.KyH/muffin-git-20121123-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-11-23 21:44] upgraded muffin-git (20120610-1 -> 20121123-1)
[2012-11-23 21:45] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-john/PKGDEST.6mB/shutter-0.89.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-11-23 21:45] upgraded shutter (0.88.3-1 -> 0.89.1-1)
[2012-11-23 21:45] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-john/PKGDEST.MTz/unix-runescape-client-3.9.4-1-any.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-11-23 21:45] ==> for compatibility mode to work, you need to install 'wine' and any windows jre inside it.
[2012-11-23 21:45] upgraded unix-runescape-client (3.9.2-2 -> 3.9.4-1)

Any ideas?

Last edited by PTBM133A4X (2012-11-27 21:24:49)

jasonwryan · 2012-11-27 00:49:07

What's in your Xorg.log?

SIGTERM · 2012-11-27 08:59:32

Try downgrading accountsservice to 0.6.25.

PTBM133A4X · 2012-11-27 20:16:54

SIGTERM wrote:

Try downgrading accountsservice to 0.6.25.

WOW! That did it

Could you explain what happened or why this fixed it please?

Thanks for your help.

SIGTERM · 2012-11-28 20:28:30

PTBM133A4X wrote:

SIGTERM wrote:
Try downgrading accountsservice to 0.6.25.
WOW! That did it
Could you explain what happened or why this fixed it please?
Thanks for your help.

I don't know the details to be honest, but the title of your post basically describes my situation with GDM when I used accountsservice >0.6.25, so I figured it was worth a shot, since the symptoms were the same.
Also, Cinnamon depends on accountsservice if I'm not mistaken, so it didn't seem unreasonable that the update broke Cinnamon too.

I'm glad it works now. Let's hope a updated, working version of accountsservice is released soon.

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#1 2012-11-26 23:57:39

[Solved] Login freezing with busy mouse cursor and black screen.

#2 2012-11-27 00:49:07

Re: [Solved] Login freezing with busy mouse cursor and black screen.

#3 2012-11-27 08:59:32

Re: [Solved] Login freezing with busy mouse cursor and black screen.

#4 2012-11-27 20:16:54

Re: [Solved] Login freezing with busy mouse cursor and black screen.

#5 2012-11-28 20:28:30

Re: [Solved] Login freezing with busy mouse cursor and black screen.

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