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ziv667

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Registered: 2012-05-24

Posts: 14

gdm and gnome 3.12.2 unable to login

Hi there,

i got a slight problem with the login into gnome.
every time i log in using gdm the following error appears:

 Oh no! Something has gone wrong. 
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. All extensions have been disabled as a precaution

I'm using the following:

Kernel: Linux desktop 3.14.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 13 16:41:39 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Gnome-Shell: 3.12.2-1
GDM: 3.12.2-1

journalctl -u gdm

can be found here: http://pastebin.com/QyPBYMJt

The system is up to date.
I've already tried reinstalling the gdk-pixbuf2 package as suggested in the wiki article but it didnt work.
Using Cinnamon, or some WM like Awesome or i3 is working fine. Only the gnome-shell crashes.
Starting the shell by startx (exec gnome-session in .xinitrc) works also fine.

I also found some log entries like this, i am not sure if this is related:

Mai 31 00:13:47 desktop gdm-password][925]: PAM (gdm-password) illegal module type: sesion
Mai 31 00:13:47 desktop gdm-password][925]: PAM (gdm-password) illegal module type: sesion
Mai 31 00:13:47 desktop gdm-password][925]: PAM (gdm-password) illegal module type: sesion
Mai 31 00:13:47 desktop gdm-password][925]: PAM (gdm-password) illegal module type: sesion

i just tried login in with lxdm and that actually worked, so it might be an issue with gdm or the pam problem.

thank you for any suggestions how to fix this

surfatwork

Member

Registered: 2012-01-05

Posts: 139

Re: gdm and gnome 3.12.2 unable to login

Why does your module type spell "sesion" with only one "s"? Did you make any updates to any config files and typo?
btw, I find evolution to be the biggest chunk of rubbish in the gnome system - which is a difficult achievement. You dont really need evolution

ziv667

Member

Registered: 2012-05-24

Posts: 14

Re: gdm and gnome 3.12.2 unable to login

yes, that was me, i actually wrote sesion into /etc/pam.d/system-auth
just fixed that. but didnt fix the login problem but thanks for pointing that out.

i just wanted to try out evolution, never used it before.
same goes for gnome 3 actually

Last edited by ziv667 (2014-05-31 12:22:36)

surfatwork

Member

Registered: 2012-01-05

Posts: 139

Re: gdm and gnome 3.12.2 unable to login

I made the mistake of trying out evolution - trying to migrate from thunderbird to evolution. This deleted a significant chunk of my mails from the IMAP server on a particular account. thankfully I had some backups.
Gnome itself seems pretty good. A bit heavy, some might say, but I like all the eye-candy.
http://we.tl/KUT4SN2jDy