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Pluribootent

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Registered: 2008-09-16

Posts: 25

Cannot login to gnome, but gnome-classic since update

Hi.

Since an update 2 days ago I am not able to login to gnome. I only get thrown back to the login screen.
If I choose gnome classic it works fine. And I can do

$ gnome-shell --mode=user -r &

and switch during the session in gnome classic to gnome.

Maybe anyone has some suggestions?
Thank you in advance!

Cheers.

mattsqerror

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Registered: 2017-03-04

Posts: 3

Re: Cannot login to gnome, but gnome-classic since update

I'm having the same problem. Your temporary fix in switching to gnome-shell works as well.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,143

Re: Cannot login to gnome, but gnome-classic since update

nvidia?
autologin?
anything interesting in your journal? ...

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mattsqerror

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Registered: 2017-03-04

Posts: 3

Re: Cannot login to gnome, but gnome-classic since update

This is in my journalctl:

Mar 04 08:26:04 gnome-shell[403]: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to initialize the Clutter backend: no available drivers found.
Mar 04 08:26:04 gnome-shell[403]: Unable to initialize Clutter.
Mar 04 08:26:05 gnome-session[383]: gnome-session-binary[383]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
Mar 04 08:26:05 gnome-session-binary[383]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop
Mar 04 08:26:05 gnome-session-binary[383]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1

Switching to Xorg at the login fixes it. Must be a wayland problem?

madmerlyn

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Registered: 2016-02-09

Posts: 3

Re: Cannot login to gnome, but gnome-classic since update

Something seems to be wrong with the latest build of gdm/libgdm 3.22.2-1

Rollback to 3.22.1-1 using https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/do … g_packages

cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg
pacman -U gdm-3.22.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz libgdm-3.22.1-1.x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Your packages might be different if you're on 32 bit, so you can see what you have by doing:

ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg | grep -i gdm

This doesn't *fix* the problem with the latest gdm, but at least it gets you logging back in like normal while the maintainers figure it out

Also, TIL a lot about the pacman cache, such as mine was taking up 11GB of space on my SSD O_O

You can clean up your cache to have just the 3 most recent packages by doing:

paccache -r

Last edited by madmerlyn (2017-03-04 15:46:16)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,143

Re: Cannot login to gnome, but gnome-classic since update

Mar 04 08:26:04 gnome-shell[403]: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to initialize the Clutter backend: no available drivers found.

What's the output of "glxinfo" in gnome on xorg?

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mattsqerror

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Registered: 2017-03-04

Posts: 3

Re: Cannot login to gnome, but gnome-classic since update

Downgrading gdm didn't seem to make a difference for me. I still had to use Xorg. I'll try to troubleshoot later.

My pacman cache was taking up 25 GB haha.  So thanks for that.

mandog

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From: Peru

Registered: 2008-09-17

Posts: 218

Re: Cannot login to gnome, but gnome-classic since update

A modified package is in the repro since yesterday, works fine for me same version number with added text

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netkrash

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From: Viña del Mar, Chile.

Registered: 2003-03-19

Posts: 95

Re: Cannot login to gnome, but gnome-classic since update

Thank you! got my login back after downgrading gdm and libgdm! not fun to lose your login 15 minutes before a meeting though.

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