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shane1027

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Registered: 2015-10-20

Posts: 7

Gnome will only login under 'Wayland' after changing swap partitions

Hey everyone,

My installation of arch linux has been humming along on my thinkpad t430 for a month or so now, and I figured it was time to expand my swap partition enough to enable hibernation.

So, I moved a few things around in gparted... my disk layout had free space before the primary partition Arch is installed on, and a few GB of swap after the primary partition until the end of the disk.  I simply turned swap off, deleted the swap partition, extended the primary Arch installation partition into the now free space at the end of the disk, and created swap before the primary partition.  Right click, swapon, and everything seemed to be running just fine.

Then the sound stopped working for youtube videos in chrome, and I realized I hadn't restarted my laptop in a while, in fact not at all since changing around the swap.  I had since made other changes to my system, but they were only to Vim, tmux, and other packages that shouldn't affect my gnome shell....  so I restarted to see if the audio problem would be resolved, and I received a message on boot complaining about waiting to mount a disk and retrying for 1min30sec.  I didn't recognize this message at first, and after the 1min 30sec timed out it threw up a few more quick lines on screen and then the gnome login screen popped up.

Anytime I try to login, the screen accepts the password, goes through the fade-to-desktop animation for a second, and then immediately pops back to the lock screen I was just at.  I can't enter gnome's desktop environment at all in the 'GNOME' or 'GNOME-classic' settings, although I can still enter in the 'Wayland' setting for some reason.

I recognize the initial error on boot to be complaining about a mismatch of UUIDs between where my fstab thinks the swap partition is and where the new one I created resides, so I manually changed the fstab to reflect the new UUID.  This fixed the boot error, but for some reason i still cannot enter gnome under the normal option, only under Wayland, where many things aren't compatible, and the sound in Chrome still doesn't work

Any ideas as to what could be causing this?

Thanks guys!