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tonykuroi

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Registered: 2012-07-05

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Can't log into gnome wayland with normal user

So, today I installed a fresh arch, got things up and running with gnome, and wanted to try wayland. However, when I would try to log into wayland with my regular username, it would just throw me back into GDM. The weird thing is after I tried signing into wayland once, even if I changed back to a normal X session, my user could not log in. However, I could log in as root - and even log into a wayland session as root. Has anyone had anything similar happen?

I put the full systemd log on pastebin. The first mentions of GDM happen around like 1415. (Yes, it's really long- because I'm no expert and I have no idea what could help in solving why wayland wont start- so I just put it all in)

I couldn't find an xorg log in /var/log or in ~/.local/, so I figured a systemd log would have to do.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: Can't log into gnome wayland with normal user

Do you have the xorg-server-xwayland package installed?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wayland#GNOME

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tonykuroi

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Registered: 2012-07-05

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Re: Can't log into gnome wayland with normal user

yeah, xwayland was the first thing I installed after installing xorg and my video drivers. To be safe, I even reinstalled it, and gnome, after I got gnome up and running the first time

Edit: while taking a nice long shower, it came to me- I bet the reason I can't get wayland running is because I am using the proprietary nvidia driver. I can't CONFIRM if this is the case, but I believe I read somewhere that the Nvidia blob isnt wayland ready yet- and I'd have to use noveau (and who wants to use that)

Last edited by tonykuroi (2015-02-06 05:32:53)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Can't log into gnome wayland with normal user

Yup.

Currently Wayland will only work on systems utilizing KMS.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wa … quirements

The proprietary NVIDIA and AMD Catalyst drivers do not use the open driver stack. In order to use KMS you should replace them with open source drivers.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … _KMS_start

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beve

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Registered: 2015-02-08

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Re: Can't log into gnome wayland with normal user

I don't know if you have solved your problem.But I have just met a similar problem and I think my experience might be helpful.
I reinstalled arch too and I could log into gnome only as root. I found it was because my user folder belongs to root ( I have moved my user folder as root ) and gnome doesn't have access to it.
My problem was solved with a chown command.

 sudo chown -R myname:mygroup /home/myname

Hope this will help.