[SOLVED] XFCE4 not starting on GDM Wayland mode

Yusefz1 · 2022-12-19 21:39:13

I may have found another clue but I don't have much hope about it, looking at the linuxmint forums post from ages ago, he looked in .xsession-errors, I just now looked in there and found something else:

(xfsettingsd:1048): libxfce4ui-WARNING **: 20:06:57.503: ICE I/O Error

(xfsettingsd:1048): libxfce4ui-WARNING **: 20:06:57.503: Disconnected from session manager.

(xfdesktop:1094): libxfce4ui-WARNING **: 20:06:57.503: ICE I/O Error

(xfdesktop:1094): libxfce4ui-WARNING **: 20:06:57.503: Disconnected from session manager.
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 1098, errno = 11

(xfce4-power-manager:1109): libxfce4ui-WARNING **: 20:06:57.549: ICE I/O Error

Yusefz1 · 2022-12-19 21:46:53

Nevermind, these errors are from ages ago and do not occur when XFCE fails to launch, so they are another dead end.

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Yusefz1 · 2022-12-19 21:51:34

seth wrote:

If that hack works, that's not a problem w/ GDM but the takedown of your session.
I'd start by looking at the system journal to figure *why* the login fails.
You're stressing the "wayland" part, do you not face the situation w/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GDM#Use_Xorg_backend ?

Oh my god, you were right, just tried the "Random Hack (TM)" and I am now able to login to XFCE from GDM Wayland after startx and whatnot, thanks for your help, I'm finally going to mark this as solved after 4 days, if I had just tried the hack in the first place, we wouldn't have wasted 3 days on it.

To clarify, the random hack that worked was this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1291585 … n-to-xfce4

I added this to /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default:

killall -9 -u $USER

and now I am able to login to XFCE from GDM Wayland.

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Yusefz1 · 2022-12-19 21:53:21

It seems like I can't mark it as solved, but it is solved, the problem is gone.

V1del · 2022-12-19 22:20:18

You can edit the title in the first post to mark as [SOLVED]

Yusefz1 · 2022-12-20 00:40:43

V1del wrote:

You can edit the title in the first post to mark as [SOLVED]

Thanks, it's done!

seth · 2022-12-20 08:54:15

killall -9 -u $USER

If you don't, what process is lingering around?

seth wrote:

I'll through a curveball: emacs?

And just ftr:

Yusefz1 wrote:

I don't think[, i simply believe] anything was lingering

ftfy

Yusefz1 · 2022-12-20 12:58:22

seth wrote:

killall -9 -u $USER
If you don't, what process is lingering around?
seth wrote:
I'll through a curveball: emacs?
And just ftr:
Yusefz1 wrote:
I don't think[, i simply believe] anything was lingering
ftfy

Nah it's definitely not Emacs that lingers. I don't know what process lingers but it's probably something from the GNOME or XFCE or something else session that lingers which causes me to be unable to login the XFCE.

seth · 2022-12-20 13:12:45

I don't know what process lingers

ps ux

Yusefz1 · 2022-12-20 13:25:01

seth wrote:

I don't know what process lingers
ps ux

Even if there is a dodgy process that lingers, that hack has made GDM kill it after every session, I cannot be bothered to chase down more dead ends.

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seth · 2022-12-20 13:43:29

Fine, but you do understand that you're performing

Yusefz1 · 2022-12-20 13:46:20

seth wrote:

Fine, but you do understand that you're performing
https://comb.io/DOwuJt.gif

Yes, only because I cannot be bothered, it "Just Works" lol.

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