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miles969

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Registered: 2013-02-03

Posts: 23

[SOLVED] GDM/Gnome Issues after Updates

hi everyone!

ive run into some pesky problems (possibly nvidia related) after a full update this morning. after booting up, gdm tries to run, but it crashes and retries over and over again with this message (shown in systemctl status gdm while running):

Failed to contact accountsservice. Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Activation of org.freedesktop.Accounts timed out

i tried installing lxdm and lightdm (the former loaded, the latter didnt), but that also didnt seem to work. with lxdm i couldnt log in to gnome (screen just went black), with lightdm i had no luck at all (didnt start at all).

can anyone point me in the right direction to debug this?

thanks a lot!

regards,
M.

Edit:
i installed nouveau and lightdm again and checked the status with systemctl. seems polkit is looking for a file called libmozjs-17-0.so:

● polkit.service - Authorization Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2014-04-16 17:14:12 CEST; 39s ago
     Docs: man:polkit(8)
  Process: 6145 ExecStart=/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug (code=exited, status=127)
 Main PID: 6145 (code=exited, status=127)

Apr 16 17:14:12 arch systemd[1]: Starting Authorization Manager...
Apr 16 17:14:12 arch polkitd[6145]: /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs-17.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Apr 16 17:14:12 arch systemd[1]: polkit.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Apr 16 17:14:12 arch systemd[1]: Failed to start Authorization Manager.
Apr 16 17:14:12 arch systemd[1]: Unit polkit.service entered failed state.

i checked /usr/lib and found libmozjs-24.so… weird

Edit 2:
so i reinstalled a package called js17, undid all my changes with lightdm, slim et al, reinstalled nvidia and it seems it works!

marking as solved.

Last edited by miles969 (2014-04-16 16:10:15)

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: [SOLVED] GDM/Gnome Issues after Updates

js17 is a dependency of polkit. Somehow your system is not completely synced.

Last edited by hokasch (2014-04-16 15:35:36)

corvinusz

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From: Orsk, Russia

Registered: 2011-03-24

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] GDM/Gnome Issues after Updates

Last update (at 2014-04-16) gives me a great headache.
All my keyboard shorcuts had become useless: freezings reach up to 30 secs.
Number of applications are bricked, i.e. evolution can not to read any message from imap server.
I have a bulk of errors in my journalctl.  This is cut of them (Hmm, what do you think about a necessity to punish the guy that invented localized logs?)

$ journalctl -b | grep rror
апр 16 19:16:27 church gdm-Xorg-:0[258]: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
апр 16 19:16:31 church NetworkManager[177]: <warn> Couldn't acquire object manager proxy: Ошибка вызова StartServiceByName для org.bluez: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.LoadFailed: Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
апр 16 19:16:37 church gdm-Xorg-:0[258]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
апр 16 19:16:38 church org.a11y.atspi.Registry[382]: ** (at-spi2-registryd:387): WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
апр 16 19:16:46 church gdm-Xorg-:0[258]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
апр 16 19:16:52 church gnome-session[326]: Gjs-Message: JS LOG: 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
апр 16 19:17:06 church org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer[348]: (gnome-shell-calendar-server:500): ShellCalendarServer-WARNING **: Error opening calendar 1397299558.9767.2@church: ?????????? ??????? ?????????: ??????????? ???????? ?? ????
апр 16 19:23:49 church gdm-Xorg-:0[258]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
апр 16 19:26:51 church org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Sources3[348]: AUTH (1397299494.9760.26@church): Complete (ERROR - Ошибка вызова StartServiceByName для org.freedesktop.secrets: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Activation of org.freedesktop.secrets timed out)
апр 16 19:26:51 church org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Sources3[348]: (evolution-source-registry:507): libebackend-WARNING **: source_registry_server_authenticate_done_cb: Ошибка вызова StartServiceByName для org.freedesktop.secrets: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Activation of org.freedesktop.secrets timed out
апр 16 19:27:12 church chromium.desktop[925]: [925:950:0416/192712:ERROR:nss_util.cc(853)] After loading Root Certs, loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018
апр 16 19:28:00 church kernel: traps: evolution[760] trap int3 ip:7ff69db9c993 sp:7fff6d219560 error:0

miles969

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Registered: 2013-02-03

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] GDM/Gnome Issues after Updates

js17 is a dependency of polkit. Somehow your system is not completely synced.

guess i shouldve refreshed the thread sooner - thanks anyway hokash!

yepyang

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Registered: 2011-03-01

Posts: 62

Re: [SOLVED] GDM/Gnome Issues after Updates

апр 16 19:16:52 church gnome-session[326]: Gjs-Message: JS LOG: 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

now I also had this error message,did you had solve?could advise?Thanks!

Last edited by yepyang (2014-08-09 13:03:56)

corvinusz

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From: Orsk, Russia

Registered: 2011-03-24

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] GDM/Gnome Issues after Updates

I have forced to load gnome-keyring in first lines of my ~/.profile

#get keychain
eval $(keychain --eval --agents ssh -Q --quiet id_ecdsa)

Now it has been fixed in normal system.
Mb you OS has a lack of some packages related to the keychain. And may be such command can help you to find problem.

Last edited by corvinusz (2014-08-09 15:07:47)

yepyang

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Registered: 2011-03-01

Posts: 62

Re: [SOLVED] GDM/Gnome Issues after Updates

Thanks for reply!now i had problem in gnome3,below is my post link,do you got any experience on it?could you help me?please take a look my post

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=185413

yepyang

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Registered: 2011-03-01

Posts: 62

Re: [SOLVED] GDM/Gnome Issues after Updates

and BTW i had run you command my side is below result:

eval $(keychain --eval --agents ssh -Q --quiet id_ecdsa)
* Warning: can't find id_ecdsa; skipping