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#1 2015-03-26 20:00:20
- wil93
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[SOLVED] [gnome 3.16] Can't start GDM/Mutter
After updating, I cannot start GDM anymore. I edited /etc/gdm/custom.conf and uncommented "Enable=true" to enable debugging.
The output of "sudo gdm" is this (it hangs, I mean the log starts over and over again indefinitely... so I kill it using CTRL+C).
When I call mutter (with or without sudo) I receive the following error: "mutter: error while loading shared libraries: libgirepository-1.0.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
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#2 2015-03-26 21:11:55
- Krissel
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Re: [SOLVED] [gnome 3.16] Can't start GDM/Mutter
Hi,
does (re-)installing This help?
It provides libgirepository-1.0.
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#3 2015-03-26 21:27:37
- wil93
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Re: [SOLVED] [gnome 3.16] Can't start GDM/Mutter
Hi, I have this (the same package from testing) which doesn't provide that file. I wonder if this is expected...
Anyway, downgrading gobject-introspection makes the mutter error disappear (now it complains about being unable to open the display). Still, GDM won't start (it "loops", giving each time the usual log)
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#4 2015-03-26 21:31:23
- Krissel
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Re: [SOLVED] [gnome 3.16] Can't start GDM/Mutter
Ha, that's the package i meant (had both open, copied the wrong link).
After reading this i thought that reinstalling that particular package might help.
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#5 2015-03-26 21:50:37
- wil93
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Re: [SOLVED] [gnome 3.16] Can't start GDM/Mutter
Reinstalled the testing version, still the same error when launching mutter... 
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#6 2015-03-26 22:06:17
- tvn87
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Re: [SOLVED] [gnome 3.16] Can't start GDM/Mutter
I am having the same problem. Currently I only tried it on a system with intel graphics.
I updated clutter-gst and gobject-introspection before gnome, but this doesn't seem to be sufficient.
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#7 2015-03-26 22:50:24
- wil93
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Re: [SOLVED] [gnome 3.16] Can't start GDM/Mutter
Solved!
You must reinstall the package gobject-introspection-runtime (which has the *.so files, now) 
Anyway, I think this may be a pacman issue. I'm absolutely positive that:
1) The *.so files weren't there
2) "pacman -Ql gobject-introspection-runtime" listed them as being there
3) After reinstalling, the files suddenly were there
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