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i6n8pn3g

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Registered: 2023-09-17

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GDM unable to start and stuck in a crash loop

I just updated all packages with

sudo pacman -Syu

and now gdm now fails to start. It is in this loop where every time it attempts to start, it throws me back to the first tty.
It took me half an hour just to type the command

sudo systemctl stop gdm

and use my fingerprint to stop the gdm service.

$ journalctl -b -u gdm --no-hostname
Sep 20 02:15:25 systemd[1]: Starting GNOME Display Manager...
Sep 20 02:15:25 systemd[1]: Started GNOME Display Manager.
Sep 20 02:15:25 gdm-autologin][1988]: pam_systemd_home(gdm-autologin:account): New sd-bus connection (system-bus-pam-systemd-home-1988) opened.
Sep 20 02:15:25 gdm-autologin][1988]: pam_unix(gdm-autologin:session): session opened for user myuser(uid=1000) by myuser(uid=0)
Sep 20 02:15:25 gdm-autologin][1988]: pam_systemd(gdm-autologin:session): New sd-bus connection (system-bus-pam-systemd-1988) opened.
Sep 20 02:15:25 gdm-autologin][1988]: gkr-pam: couldn't unlock the login keyring.
Sep 20 02:15:27 gdm[1949]: Gdm: GdmDisplay: Session never registered, failing
Sep 20 02:15:28 gdm-autologin][2327]: pam_systemd_home(gdm-autologin:account): New sd-bus connection (system-bus-pam-systemd-home-2327) opened.
Sep 20 02:15:28 gdm-autologin][2327]: pam_unix(gdm-autologin:session): session opened for user myuser(uid=1000) by myuser(uid=0)
Sep 20 02:15:28 gdm-autologin][2327]: pam_systemd(gdm-autologin:session): New sd-bus connection (system-bus-pam-systemd-2327) opened.
Sep 20 02:15:28 gdm-autologin][2327]: gkr-pam: couldn't unlock the login keyring.
Sep 20 02:15:29 gdm[1949]: Gdm: GdmDisplay: Session never registered, failing

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: GDM unable to start and stuck in a crash loop

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p2197094

If you want to know whether you're also hitting the keyboard thing, don't filter - what fails there is your autologin. For reasons.

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