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#1 2014-10-16 23:56:52

SnowyMan95
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Registered: 2012-08-16
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Gnome won't start after update

Hey, so after I've updated gnome to 3.14 it refuses to start. The moment I get past the login screen (that works - I use lightdm), gnome will just tell me that "something has gone wrong" and it won't launch the session. For the past two hours or so I've been trying to identify the issue with no good results. What I think might be relevant is that I use the catalyst driver and also this part of journalctl -e /usr/bin/gnome-shell:

Oct 16 23:19:28 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: gnome-session[602]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file screensaver-settings.desktop or it references a not found TryExec binary
Oct 16 23:19:28 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file screensaver-settings.desktop or it references a not found TryExec binary
Oct 16 23:19:28 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/keyring/gpg:0:1
Oct 16 23:19:28 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/keyring/gpg:0:1
Oct 16 23:19:28 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
Oct 16 23:19:28 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: ** (gnome-settings-daemon:626): WARNING **: Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the
Oct 16 23:19:28 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: ** (gnome-settings-daemon:626): WARNING **: Ignoring unknown module 'org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.updates'
Oct 16 23:19:28 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Oct 16 23:19:28 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: Major opcode of failed request:  141 (RANDR)
Oct 16 23:19:28 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: Minor opcode of failed request:  13 (RRChangeOutputProperty)
Oct 16 23:19:28 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: Value in failed request:  0x99
Oct 16 23:19:28 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: Serial number of failed request:  280
Oct 16 23:19:28 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: Current serial number in output stream:  282
Oct 16 23:19:28 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' exited with code 1
Oct 16 23:19:28 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: gnome-session[602]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' exited with code 1
Oct 16 23:19:29 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Oct 16 23:19:29 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: Major opcode of failed request:  141 (RANDR)
Oct 16 23:19:29 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: Minor opcode of failed request:  13 (RRChangeOutputProperty)
Oct 16 23:19:29 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: Value in failed request:  0x99
Oct 16 23:19:29 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: Serial number of failed request:  280
Oct 16 23:19:29 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: Current serial number in output stream:  282
Oct 16 23:19:29 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' exited with code 1
Oct 16 23:19:29 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly
Oct 16 23:19:29 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: gnome-session[602]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' exited with code 1
Oct 16 23:19:29 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: gnome-session[602]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly
Oct 16 23:19:29 snowy-laptop-arch gnome-session[602]: Unrecoverable failure in required component gnome-shell.desktop

Any ideas? ^^

Last edited by SnowyMan95 (2014-10-17 19:44:43)

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#2 2014-10-17 00:41:48

dwe11er
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Re: Gnome won't start after update

Did you tried to remove gnome config?

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#3 2014-10-17 05:04:33

parashep
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Re: Gnome won't start after update

having the exact same thing. I use catalyst as well, and use SLiM as my login manager. chances are that after the update, GNOME is incompatible with Catalyst entirely… not just GDM anymore. I'm going to switch to the open source drivers and report back.

EDIT: launches perfectly fine on the open source radeon drivers. looks like GNOME and Catalyst's incompatibility is very serious now.

Last edited by parashep (2014-10-17 05:45:38)

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#4 2014-10-17 09:46:12

Morn
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Re: Gnome won't start after update

No problems here with Gnome 3 and Catalyst 14.9. Are you running the latest version of Catalyst?

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#5 2014-10-17 12:39:06

SnowyMan95
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Re: Gnome won't start after update

@Morn
Yes I am, the latest available in the Vi0L0's repo that is.

Guess that I'll just have to try switching to the open-source driver. I'll tell you if it worked, it's possible the issue is in catalyst and is hardware-dependent.

eidt.
Well yes, apparently switching to the open-source driver allows gnome to launch. Unfortunately, in my case it's noticeably slower than the proprietary driver sad I guess I'll just mark this thread as closed; this should be in Vi0L0's one to begin with. Thanks for the help ^^

Last edited by SnowyMan95 (2014-10-17 13:21:12)

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#6 2014-10-17 16:40:08

Morn
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Re: Gnome won't start after update

You could also try catalyst-total from AUR. At least that's what I'm using (on Linux 3.16.1).

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#7 2014-10-17 19:19:52

SnowyMan95
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Re: Gnome won't start after update

Yeah, I think I'll try to experiment when I have a little time, thanks for the suggestion. If I find a solution I'll just post it here.

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#8 2014-10-17 19:39:37

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Re: Gnome won't start after update

Please don't use [Closed], it denotes a locked thread.


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#9 2014-10-19 16:51:54

IVIonty
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Re: Gnome won't start after update

Same problem here, and I think that it's all Catalyst fault.

Many people are reporting GNOME 3.14 / Catalyst compatibility issue in AMD Bar & Grill thread (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57084&p=272) and I totally agree with Vi0l0 (unofficial Catalyst packages maintainer):

Vi0l0 wrote:

As for the GNOME 3.14 - wish I have more time to look at this closer, I catched problems with GNOME latelly (but before 3.14) - it started to crash before start - I spent not much time on it, but didn't find solution. Fixing it is not that important for me right now, since im planning to install arch on btrfs 2xSSD smile. Its just the time... Wish I had some kind of clone of myself with shared awareness tongue.
But anyhow I think that GNOME 3.14 support could be real problem atm (at least with unmodified gnome packages), afaik 3.14 is really close to wayland and catalyst doesn't even have egl.

EDIT: if confirmed seems to be a display manager issue:

Vi0L0 wrote:

BTW I installed new arch on new drives, and all seems to work fine, GDM didn't start so I used KDM. All problems are gone and GNOME 3.14 works pretty nice.

Last edited by IVIonty (2014-10-19 20:13:20)


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