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#1 2018-05-11 15:54:37

jonnybarnes
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From: Manchester, UK
Registered: 2011-05-11
Posts: 135
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GDM fails to start Gnome-Shell

The first issue I have is flickering. Most obviously after typing CTRL+ALT+F2 to get to a new tty. When typing my username and password some of the characters will end up being typed into tty1, making it really hard to login. If I can login htop shows me gdm is using the most CPU of my processes.

Eventually gdm stops using lots of cpu and the flickering stops, after a few boot attempts now I just wait for the flickering to stop before attempting to login on a secondary tty.

Here’s a picture of

systemctl status gdm

: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cxwxqqyih7bnh … 8.jpg?dl=0

And a video of the flickering: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9iexr93ssiey4 … 7.mov?dl=0

I have literally no idea how to fix this.

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#2 2018-05-15 16:18:10

jonnybarnes
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From: Manchester, UK
Registered: 2011-05-11
Posts: 135
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Re: GDM fails to start Gnome-Shell

I’ve just formatted my main drive and installed a fresh version of Arch Linux from the latest download ISO. GNOME still won’t start using gem.

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#3 2018-05-15 18:28:55

twelveeighty
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Registered: 2011-09-04
Posts: 1,456

Re: GDM fails to start Gnome-Shell

This sounds like a graphics/driver issue. Please start at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xo … stallation and tell us what graphics card/drivers you are using and how you are starting Gnome? Also, rather than screen-capping, please traverse your logs, see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855 for general tips and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Journal on how to access your journal. Also post output of dmesg.

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