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windy

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Registered: 2013-11-10

Posts: 46

Login from GDM hangs

Hello,

since the huge upgrade of Gnome, my login hangs every time I enter the credentials in gdm. All I see is the gdm background image, but nothing happens. This problem occurs with Cinnamon, Gnome, and KDE.

When I try to investigate the problem from the console with Ctrl+Alt+F2, I am not directed to the console but my window manager starts.

Here is the relevant part of the log. Please notice the two minutes I waited before pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 (third line):

Okt 10 09:57:47 hostname systemd[640]: Startup finished in 7ms.
Okt 10 09:57:47 hostname systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 1000.
Okt 10 09:59:43 hostname /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[455]: (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 226:0
Okt 10 09:59:43 hostname /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[455]: (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:68
Okt 10 09:59:43 hostname /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[455]: (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:65
Okt 10 09:59:43 hostname /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[455]: (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:67
Okt 10 09:59:43 hostname /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[455]: (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:66
Okt 10 09:59:43 hostname /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[455]: (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:64
Okt 10 09:59:43 hostname /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[656]: _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
Okt 10 09:59:43 hostname /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[656]: _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
Okt 10 09:59:43 hostname /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[656]: X.Org X Server 1.17.2
Okt 10 09:59:43 hostname /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[656]: Release Date: 2015-06-16
Okt 10 09:59:43 hostname /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[656]: X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Okt 10 09:59:43 hostname /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[656]: Build Operating System: Linux 4.0.4-2-ARCH x86_64

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Last edited by windy (2015-10-10 10:36:46)

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

Posts: 1,069

Re: Login from GDM hangs

Hitting the Escape key also works to make it continue when it hangs (instead of Ctrl-Alt-F2).

Here's the bug report about the problem: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754814

windy

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Registered: 2013-11-10

Posts: 46

Re: Login from GDM hangs

Thanks for the hint and the link to the bugreport, this is exactly my problem. ESC works for now, so I think I can live with it until the bug is fixed.

Galmax

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Registered: 2016-08-01

Posts: 2

Re: Login from GDM hangs

Having the same problem of GDM hanging on re-login after suspend. I can hit ESC and return back to the login form, but then on submitting again the problem occurs again, so I cannot login.

As a workaround, I can switch to another VT (e.g. with CTRL-ALT-F3), login and kill gnome-shell softly using "killall -HUP gnome-shell". Afterwards, I can switch back to GDM (CTRL-ALT-F2) and the login succeeds. Most of the time, that is. Sometimes my session is lost and I am back to the normal login.