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JohnD87

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T470: Unable to start gdm/gnome

Hello everybody,

i am trying to setup Arch on my new Thinkpad T470 (Intel GPU).

Gdm/gnome-session ends immediatly and dmesg output shows me stuff like  "gnome-session-f(123): segault at ..... error 4 in libgtk-3.so. ... "

Any ideas how to solve that?

Thanks

jasonwryan

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Re: T470: Unable to start gdm/gnome

Much more information needed. Please paste the full journal error output, details of your card and the driver, etc.

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JohnD87

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Re: T470: Unable to start gdm/gnome

GPU: Intel HD 620

Journalctl looks like this when i try to start gdm (with default config):

Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-wayland-session[17610]: Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-wayland-session[17610]: Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-wayland-session[17610]: Unable to register display with display manager
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm[13323]: Child process -17610 was already dead.
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm[13323]: GLib: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm[13323]: Child process -17610 was already dead.
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm-launch-environment][17618]: pam_systemd(gdm-launch-environment:session): Cannot create session: Already running in a session
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-wayland-session[17621]: Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-wayland-session[17621]: Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-wayland-session[17621]: Unable to register display with display manager
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm[13323]: GLib: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm[13323]: Child process -17621 was already dead.
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm[13323]: Child process 17618 was already dead.
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm[13323]: Unable to kill session worker process
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm-launch-environment][17629]: pam_systemd(gdm-launch-environment:session): Cannot create session: Already running in a session
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-wayland-session[17632]: Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-wayland-session[17632]: Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-wayland-session[17632]: Unable to register display with display manager
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm[13323]: GLib: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm[13323]: Child process -17632 was already dead.
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm[13323]: Child process 17629 was already dead.
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm[13323]: Unable to kill session worker process
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm-launch-environment][17641]: pam_systemd(gdm-launch-environment:session): Cannot create session: Already running in a session
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-wayland-session[17644]: Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-wayland-session[17644]: Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-wayland-session[17644]: Unable to register display with display manager
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm[13323]: GLib: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm[13323]: Child process -17644 was already dead.
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm[13323]: Child process 17641 was already dead.
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm[13323]: Unable to kill session worker process
Jun 14 10:42:08 douglas17 gdm-launch-environment][17652]: pam_systemd(gdm-launch-environment:session): Cannot create session: Already running in a session
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thepasto

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Re: T470: Unable to start gdm/gnome

You could try to use X and disable wayland.
In /etc/grub/custom.conf

[daemon]
# Uncoment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
#WaylandEnable=false

V1del

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Re: T470: Unable to start gdm/gnome

Post a backtrace of your coredump are microcode updates set up and installed?