After upgrade GDM accepts password but doesn't login

dmitrykabanov · 2013-07-02 19:52:16

I've upgraded system tonight. Then I restarted the system. Now GDM (Gnome Display Manager) shows me the login window, I type password, then I see black screen and then GDM shows the login window again.

This is last messages in /var/log/pacman.log:

[2013-07-02 19:47] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2013-07-02 19:47] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2013-07-02 19:49] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded automake (1.13.4-1 -> 1.14-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded clutter-gtk (1.4.4-1 -> 1.4.4-2)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded lcms2 (2.4-1 -> 2.5-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded colord (1.0.0-1 -> 1.0.1-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded cronie (1.4.9-4 -> 1.4.9-5)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded cups-filters (1.0.34-4 -> 1.0.35-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded curl (7.30.0-1 -> 7.31.0-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded giflib (4.2.1-2 -> 4.2.1-3)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded git (1.8.3.1-1 -> 1.8.3.2-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded libsecret (0.15-1 -> 0.15-2)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-shell (3.8.3-1 -> 3.8.3-3)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded grub (2.00-1 -> 2.00.5043-2)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded gtkmm (2.24.3-1 -> 2.24.4-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded gvfs (1.16.3-1 -> 1.16.3-2)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded imagemagick (6.8.5.10-1 -> 6.8.6.2-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded isl (0.11.2-1 -> 0.12-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded libgsf (1.14.26-1 -> 1.14.27-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded libtheora (1.1.1-2 -> 1.1.1-3)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded libvdpau (0.6-1 -> 0.6-2)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa (9.1.3-2 -> 9.1.4-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded xorg-server-common (1.14.1-1 -> 1.14.2-2)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded xorg-server (1.14.1-1 -> 1.14.2-2)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded nvidia-utils (319.23-1 -> 319.32-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded nvidia-libgl (319.23-1 -> 319.32-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded libva (1.1.1-1 -> 1.2.1-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded libwebp (0.3.0-3 -> 0.3.1-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded libxi (1.7.1-2 -> 1.7.1-3)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio.  Please wait...
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.9.8-1-ARCH
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [base]
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [block]
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.9.8-1-ARCH
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [base]
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [block]
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded linux (3.9.7-1 -> 3.9.8-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded man-db (2.6.3-3 -> 2.6.5-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded nvidia (319.23-3 -> 319.32-2)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded openmpi (1.6.4-2 -> 1.6.5-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM] warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded pacman-mirrorlist (20130601-1 -> 20130626-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded perl-tk (804.030-5 -> 804.031-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded procps-ng (3.3.8-1 -> 3.3.8-2)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded qt4 (4.8.4-18 -> 4.8.5-1)
[2013-07-02 20:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] In order to use the new version, reload all virtualbox modules manually.
[2013-07-02 20:09] [PACMAN] upgraded virtualbox-host-modules (4.2.12-9 -> 4.2.14-2)
[2013-07-02 20:10] [PACMAN] upgraded virtualbox (4.2.12-3 -> 4.2.14-1)
[2013-07-02 20:10] [PACMAN] upgraded xorg-server-xephyr (1.14.1-1 -> 1.14.2-2)
[2013-07-02 20:13] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S lua'
[2013-07-02 20:13] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S lua lua-posix lua-filesystem'
[2013-07-02 20:14] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S lua lua-posix lua-filesystem'
[2013-07-02 20:14] [PACMAN] installed lua (5.2.2-1)
[2013-07-02 20:14] [PACMAN] installed lua-posix (29-1)
[2013-07-02 20:14] [PACMAN] installed lua-filesystem (1.6.2-2)
[2013-07-02 20:30] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S rsync'
[2013-07-02 20:30] [PACMAN] installed rsync (3.0.9-6)

Last events from journalctl:

Jul 02 19:43:38 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[746]: Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x244ad4e (Confir
m Ex)
Jul 02 19:43:38 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[746]: Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Jul 02 19:43:39 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[746]: Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x24002de (C/C++
- st)
Jul 02 19:43:39 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[746]: Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Jul 02 20:09:36 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[746]: /proc/self/exe: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
Jul 02 20:09:36 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[746]: /proc/self/exe: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
Jul 02 20:09:36 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[746]: /proc/self/exe: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
... A lot of the same complains about libGL.so.1...
Jul 02 20:09:37 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[746]: /proc/self/exe: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Jul 02 21:40:29 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[746]: Window manager warning: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct.
Jul 02 21:40:29 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[746]: Window manager warning: Got a request to focus 0x160005a (Texas Adva) with a timestamp of 0.  This shouldn't happen!
Jul 02 21:40:29 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[746]: Window manager warning: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct.
Jul 02 21:40:29 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[746]: Window manager warning: Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with a timestamp of 0.  This shouldn't happen!
Jul 02 21:40:39 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[746]: Window manager warning: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct.
Jul 02 21:40:39 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[746]: Window manager warning: Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with a timestamp of 0.  This shouldn't happen!
Jul 02 21:40:40 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[746]: Check failed: g_pipe_pid == getpid()
-- Reboot --
Jul 02 21:44:12 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[681]: /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
Jul 02 21:44:27 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[812]: /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
Jul 02 21:44:40 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[898]: /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...

Could you tell me please what the problem is? Thank you in advance!

jrussell · 2013-07-02 19:58:01

Can you post the output of 'cat /etc/passwd' (I think that's it) and then the username of the user with the problems.

What shell are you using? Bash? Zsh?

Try reinstalling the packages that were updated.

Last edited by jrussell (2013-07-02 20:04:06)

dmitrykabanov · 2013-07-02 20:04:58

Yes, I use zsh. Username is dima.

% cat /etc/passwd                                                                                                                                              
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/usr/bin/zsh
bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/bin/false
daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/bin/false
mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false
ftp:x:14:11:ftp:/srv/ftp:/bin/false
http:x:33:33:http:/srv/http:/bin/false
uuidd:x:68:68:uuidd:/:/sbin/nologin
dbus:x:81:81:dbus:/:/sbin/nologin
nobody:x:99:99:nobody:/:/bin/false
dima:x:1000:100::/home/dima:/usr/bin/zsh
git:x:999:999:git daemon user:/:/bin/bash
lightdm:x:620:620:Light Display Manager:/var/lib/lightdm:/sbin/nologin
avahi:x:84:84:avahi:/:/bin/false
polkitd:x:102:102:Policy Kit Daemon:/:/bin/false
rtkit:x:133:133:RealtimeKit:/proc:/sbin/nologin
usbmux:x:140:140:usbmux user:/:/sbin/nologin
gdm:x:120:120:Gnome Display Manager:/var/lib/gdm:/sbin/nologin

Last edited by dmitrykabanov (2013-07-02 20:06:07)

jrussell · 2013-07-02 20:08:40

Ok, to test, from the dima line, change /usr/bin/zsh to /bin/bash. Then try login from gdm again

Last edited by jrussell (2013-07-02 20:09:28)

dmitrykabanov · 2013-07-02 20:25:26

I changed the dima line in the /etc/passwd.

Rebooted. Tried to login. After password entering GDM appeared again.

$ systemctl status gdm
gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2013-07-02 23:21:39 AST; 1min 27s ago
 Main PID: 367 (gdm)
   CGroup: name=systemd:/system/gdm.service
           ├─367 /usr/bin/gdm
           ├─699 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Displays/_1
           ├─703 /usr/bin/Xorg :1 -background none -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-H9ArG5/database -seat seat0 -nolisten tcp vt1
           └─711 gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-launch-environment]

$ journalctl -b
Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
      Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
      turn off this notice.
Error was encountered while opening journal files: No data available
-- Logs begin at Thu 2013-06-13 21:32:03 AST, end at Tue 2013-07-02 23:23:34 AST. --
Jul 02 23:21:55 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[628]: /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
Jul 02 23:23:34 dima-dell-ws /etc/gdm/Xsession[862]: /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...

jrussell · 2013-07-02 20:31:03

Ok, try:

Reinstalling all packages
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … l_packages

If that doesn't help, make a new user
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Us … management
And see if that user can login with gdm, don't forget to create a password for the new user

dmitrykabanov · 2013-07-02 20:41:37

I've found the cause of the problem.

I'm sorry I've forgot to mention that I also installed this program: http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/mclay/lmod

This program requires adding a script to /etc/profile.d. The syntax in this script is broken.

I've found out the file ~/.xsession-errors:

1 /opt/apps/lmod/lmod/init/lmod_bash_completions: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `('
  2 /opt/apps/lmod/lmod/init/lmod_bash_completions: line 18: `  comm -23  <(_module_avail|sort)  <(_module_loaded_modules|sort)'

I deleted the script from /etc/profile.d and was able to login into Gnome.

Anyway, thank you for your help!

numasan · 2013-07-02 23:31:24

Wow, thank you dmitrykabanov!

I've been having this exact problem with GDM since yesterday, with no luck trying to find an answer in various log files and google. Crazy thing happened without a logical reason, and I was just about to give up for yet another day, if not for your post leading to the answer:

I had created a file in /etc/profile.d based on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ru … ps_as_root and didn't suspect it at all, since there was no indication that it was the reason (that I know of). After deleting it I could log in as if nothing happened o_O

Thanks again!

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After upgrade GDM accepts password but doesn't login

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