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jf25

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2015-07-11

Posts: 35

Switching from Cinnamon tty to gdm tty causes system crash since today

Hello,
this morning I upgraded my system with pacman -Syu and the following 4 packages were upgraded:
2015-11-13 08:57:41    gtk-update-icon-cache
2015-11-13 08:57:42    gtk3
2015-11-13 08:57:43    gnome-shell
2015-11-13 08:57:43    mutter

Since then, I can reproduce a system crash where my computer doesn't react on keyboard/mouse input anymore. After system startup I have gdm on tty1 and after login Cinnamon is on tty2. Now when I try to switch back to tty1, the system freezes. It doesn't matter whether I use the Cinnamon UI to do that or whether I press Ctrl+Alt+F1. This happens both in "normal" mode and in software-rendering mode. Edit: It happens with Gnome as well as with Cinnamon, although I was lucky once with Gnome. Also, it's no problem to switch over to, let's say tty4, which is an unused terminal. Switching back from there to Cinnamon also works. But switching from the unused tty4 to GDM's tty1 makes the system crash again.

Anybody else with this problem?

Last edited by jf25 (2015-11-13 10:45:59)

jf25

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2015-07-11

Posts: 35

Re: Switching from Cinnamon tty to gdm tty causes system crash since today

I forgot to mention the versions of my packages:

gtk-update-icon-cache 3.18.4-1
gtk3 3.18.4-1
gnome-shell 3.18.2-1
mutter 3.18.2-1
cinnamon 2.6.13-3
gdm 3.18.0-1

kuZhov

Member

Registered: 2015-11-13

Posts: 1

Re: Switching from Cinnamon tty to gdm tty causes system crash since today

I installed GDM and Cinnamon today and stumbled upon the same problem.
Works fine when I'm cycling through tty2-tty6 with ctrl+alt+f's but instantly freezes the system when trying to access tty1 with ctrl+alt+f1.
Also system freezes when I'm logging out from my user account.

I thought I broke something when installing stuff as I'm not Linux guru of any sorts, good to know it's not due to my pitiful knowledge.

Zinglefiffy

Member

From: Lancashire, UK

Registered: 2015-02-15

Posts: 1

Re: Switching from Cinnamon tty to gdm tty causes system crash since today

Same here.

I hit this using Openbox and GDM, but with a hat-full of other DEs and display managers installed from past package wanderings. Exiting Openbox resulting in a black screen, frozen mouse and no input accepted from the keyboard - so needing a hard reset to get going again. Ouch! Same on Cinnamon. Gnome works fine though.

To avoid the lockup I've switched to a different login manager, lxdm is a nice alternative:

pacman -S lxdm
systemctl disable gdm
systemctl enable lxdm

The update I ran before this issue surfaced was a big-ish one

[2015-11-14 07:19] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -Sy'
[2015-11-14 07:19] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2015-11-14 07:33] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -S -u'
[2015-11-14 07:33] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2015-11-14 08:31] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-11-14 08:31] [ALPM] upgraded llvm-libs (3.7.0-4 -> 3.7.0-5)
[2015-11-14 08:31] [ALPM] upgraded libdbus (1.10.0-4 -> 1.10.2-1)
[2015-11-14 08:31] [ALPM] upgraded dbus (1.10.0-4 -> 1.10.2-1)
[2015-11-14 08:31] [ALPM] upgraded libtirpc (0.3.2-2 -> 1.0.1-2)
[2015-11-14 08:31] [ALPM] upgraded pam (1.2.1-1 -> 1.2.1-2)
[2015-11-14 08:31] [ALPM] upgraded texinfo (5.2-4 -> 6.0-1)
[2015-11-14 08:31] [ALPM] upgraded mesa (11.0.4-1 -> 11.0.5-1)
[2015-11-14 08:31] [ALPM] upgraded mesa-libgl (11.0.4-1 -> 11.0.5-1)
[2015-11-14 08:31] [ALPM] upgraded harfbuzz (1.0.6-1 -> 1.0.6-2)
[2015-11-14 08:31] [ALPM] upgraded cairo (1.14.2-1 -> 1.14.4-1)
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[2015-11-14 08:31] [ALPM] upgraded shared-mime-info (1.4-1 -> 1.5-1)
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mrlamud

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Registered: 2014-09-27

Posts: 104

Re: Switching from Cinnamon tty to gdm tty causes system crash since today

I confirm the same problem with GDM plus when log out from current user, there is black screen with freezing cursor.
Will try lxdm then.

jf25

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From: Germany

Registered: 2015-07-11

Posts: 35

Re: Switching from Cinnamon tty to gdm tty causes system crash since today

I filed a bug report at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47094

mrlamud

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Registered: 2014-09-27

Posts: 104

Re: Switching from Cinnamon tty to gdm tty causes system crash since today

I filed a bug report at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47094

Thanks for filing the bug report.

jf25

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2015-07-11

Posts: 35

Re: Switching from Cinnamon tty to gdm tty causes system crash since today

As a workaround, using X instead of Wayland worked for me.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … rg_backend

VKen

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Registered: 2014-05-21

Posts: 14

Re: Switching from Cinnamon tty to gdm tty causes system crash since today

As a workaround, using X instead of Wayland worked for me.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … rg_backend

As of 10th March 2016, the issue described above on tty1 login screen locking up still happens to me.
Cinnamon froze on tty2 and I happened to switch to tty1 to switch it back (I switch tty to fix the original freeze on tty2).

The original bug issue thread has been closed, but is referencing a possible related issue of https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46835

I did the work around as mentioned above, That seemed to have addressed the login freeze on tty1. Will observe about the intermittent freeze on tty2.

Just adding more info on my observations if it helps.