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GomZik

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Registered: 2021-08-11

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[Solved] GDM no users on login

Hello, folks!

I have an issue about last month. I have no users on login screen on GDM. GDM start with a noticeable delay. I can start gnome session using command

XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session

If I enable autologin for my user in gnome settings, it will also launch an session, but user switching or screen locking causes same UI freeze as when gdm starts and I not be able run\unlock session, cause also users are not shown.

Tried to add new user - not shown. Tried reinstall gdm and gnome-session - not helps. What can I do to figure out, what's issue and how to fix?

Last edited by GomZik (2021-08-11 15:20:54)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,328

Re: [Solved] GDM no users on login

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start ?

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GomZik

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Registered: 2021-08-11

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Re: [Solved] GDM no users on login

Thanks seth,

Just added i915 to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and run

sudo mkinitcpio -p linux

After reboot nothing changed

GomZik

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Registered: 2021-08-11

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Re: [Solved] GDM no users on login

Need to add, that the screen isn't black, it's gdm login screen, but no users listed in it

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,744

Re: [Solved] GDM no users on login

Check your system journal with

sudo journalctl -b

on whether GDM lists a proper reason.

FWIW what's the UID of your users? It's somewhat of a convention to consider UIDs lower than 1000 to be system users and they will be hidden by default.

GomZik

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Registered: 2021-08-11

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Re: [Solved] GDM no users on login

I know about uids, I checked it + create an absolutely new user, have no luck. And it works earlier.

➜  ~ id             
uid=1000(gomzik) gid=1000(gomzik) групы=1000(gomzik),967(libvirt),975(docker),985(users),986(video),987(uucp),991(lp),992(kvm),993(input),995(audio),998(wheel)

In journalctl I found thunderbolt issue, that is known (idk, is it related or not)

GomZik

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Registered: 2021-08-11

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Re: [Solved] GDM no users on login

After some digging in journalctl, I found warnings about starting fprintd service (some time ago I experemented with fingerprint sensor on my thinkpad, so, maybe service was updated and broke my setup). Just remove fprintd service restore correct work of gdm. I'll mark this topic as solved. Thanks everyone!