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SurlyCycler

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Registered: 2019-10-26

Posts: 47

[Solved] Gnome System utility not working

Hi all

**I have lost the use of System in the NetworkManager menu on the top right.
**this problem is the same for both "user login and  "root login".
** i have a blue screen rather than a background picture, no login picture or icon for the user

I can still see my wifi settings, bluetooth, battery and logout and poweroff functions.
I just cant use the System function to go to printers, sound etc

most gnome apps dont work but aur apps do

What i have tried is to back trace what i was doing. Cups and HPLIPS and remove some installs.

I had reinstalled gdm gnome and gnome-control-center but the problem remains

I was looking at the gdm daemon and it reveiled the following.

$ sudo systemctl status gdm 

● gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; enabled; vendor preset:>
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2019-11-14 19:50:14 EST; 26min ago
 Main PID: 621 (gdm)
    Tasks: 3 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 7.1M
   CGroup: /system.slice/gdm.service
           └─621 /usr/bin/gdm

Nov 14 19:50:14 ArchLinux systemd[1]: Starting GNOME Display Manager...
Nov 14 19:50:14 ArchLinux systemd[1]: Started GNOME Display Manager.
Nov 14 19:50:25 ArchLinux gdm-password][1021]: kr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Nov 14 19:50:25 ArchLinux gdm-password][1021]: pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session opened for user john>
Nov 14 19:50:30 ArchLinux gdm[621]: Child process -695 was already dead.

gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file

I read a bit on this article just to ensure my /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/passwd looked similar to the wiki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GN … _using_GUI

I followed some other leads on this but there was no positive result
on article suggested removing the gnome-clock... nope
mv ~/.config/dconf/user ~/.config/dconf/user.bak  nope

On thing i was wondering is kr-pam is looking for "what daemon control file"

other than being a bit lost.... i could use some help

Last edited by SurlyCycler (2019-11-15 02:57:21)

SurlyCycler

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Registered: 2019-10-26

Posts: 47

Re: [Solved] Gnome System utility not working

fixed it

i ran in terminal

gnome-control-center

it said it was missing so i reinstalled it

It identified that i was missing libjpeg, so i reinstalled it now all works

the error in the system status gdm is still there however, the immediate concern is now fixed

solved

Last edited by SurlyCycler (2019-11-15 03:01:18)

telis80

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Registered: 2015-03-26

Posts: 108

Re: [Solved] Gnome System utility not working

Hi, for future reference on the same issue, because some packages like

 nautilus gnome-settings 

hang some times, always reinstall first! If the problem persists try first to downgrade to the previous version if you recently updated!

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