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barfoo

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Registered: 2021-08-21

Posts: 1

no possibility to log in in GNOME

Hi,

I did a pacman -Syu and now I'm having a problem where GNOME seems to start but there is no way to select a user and log in. All I see is a GUI with a clock on the top (which expands to calendar when clicking on it), and some usual WIFI, power off / suspend / etc options behind a symbol in the top right corner. But not the user selection box that's supposed to be in the middle.

I'm able to login through tty (ctrl-alt-fn2), but that changes nothing in the GUI. After googling around for a while, my best guess at the moment is that it's something very much related to this https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=253783 .

/var/log/Xorg.0.log looks like this

[  1378.565] (II) event4  - Intel HID events: device removed
[  1378.565] (**) Option "fd" "40"
[  1378.565] (II) event19 - Dell WMI hotkeys: device removed
[  1378.565] (**) Option "fd" "51"
[  1378.565] (II) event3  - AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: device removed
[  1378.565] (**) Option "fd" "42"
[  1378.565] (II) event20 - PS/2 Generic Mouse: device removed
[  1378.565] (**) Option "fd" "41"
[  1378.565] (II) event25 - sof-soundwire Headset Jack: device removed
[  1378.565] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
[  1378.711] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:86
[  1378.711] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:65
[  1378.711] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:83
[  1378.711] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:89
[  1378.711] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:84
[  1378.711] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:87
[  1378.711] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:73
[  1378.711] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 226:0
[  1378.711] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:88
[  1378.711] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:70
[  1378.711] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:67
[  1378.711] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:66
[  1378.711] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:74
[  1378.711] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:85
[  1378.711] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:68

pgrep -ax dbus-daemon outputs

442 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
788 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
791 dbus-daemon --nofork --print-address 4 --session
804 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/usr/share/defaults/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3

(if I add "-U barfoo" to the pgrep like in the other thread I get nothing, not sure what to think of that)

So I am guessing I should edit .xinitrc. Having a couple of issues with that. First of all I did not have such file in my home folder, so I checked /etc/X11/xinit/ but there was nothing either. (There was xinitrc.d folder however with 40-libcanberra-gtk-module.sh and 50-systemd-user.sh). Somewhere it said that I should find some boilerplate xinitrc from /etc/skel but it was not there either.

Finally I just tried created ~/.xinitrc but I'm not really sure what I should put there, since I don't really remember what window manager I used when things were working. At least "exec xorg" didn't seem to change anything.

Any help appreciated