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asg1448

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Registered: 2014-04-12

Posts: 74

Gnome session disappears sporadically

I have at least 2 different arch linux machines, which run latest gnome, where I see following problem sporadically happening: gnome session suddenly disappears and the control returns to a logon screen. In many cases, the processes running in that session are still running, just not available to interact with. Sometimes, when logged back in, gnome recognizes that there is already an existing session ("other users are logged on" when trying to reboot). On one of arch boxes, I could correlate this with VPN (or any other) connection being dropped, although after last updates it stopped happening.

I only started to see that issue a couple months ago. Anybody knows wtf is it, what causes it, and how to prevent this from happening?

**EDIT:** This just happened to me a few minutes ago. journalctl shows following relevant lines:

Jul 28 12:14:24 phxnt330i polkitd[425]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c2 (system bus name :1.32, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale C) (disconnected from bus)
Jul 28 12:14:24 phxnt330i gnome-session[638]: WARNING: Lost name on bus: org.gnome.SessionManager
Jul 28 12:14:26 phxnt330i gnome-session[638]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell-wayland.desktop' exited with code 1
Jul 28 12:14:27 phxnt330i dleyna-renderer-service[4956]: dLeyna: Exit
Jul 28 12:14:27 phxnt330i gnome-session[638]: dconf-WARNING: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed
Jul 28 12:14:27 phxnt330i gnome-session[638]: Unrecoverable failure in required component gnome-shell-wayland.desktop
Jul 28 12:14:27 phxnt330i gdm-password][622]: pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session closed for user *****

This very gnome is running on wayland, but same problem was on X

Last edited by asg1448 (2015-07-28 19:34:32)

c00ter

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From: Alaskan in Washington State

Registered: 2014-08-28

Posts: 421

Re: Gnome session disappears sporadically

Dunno. Doesn't happen to my GNOME. From the sparsity of your post I doubt that anyone will be able to help you. So far, all we know is that you at least run Arch.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ow_to_post <Forum Etiquette

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html <Eric S. Raymond, How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Not required reading, but they should be. Very helpful to me, anyway.

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