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clegg89

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Registered: 2025-02-22

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[SOLVED] Gnome freezes after user login

While copying some files over from my network storage I used up all my disk space. I removed the files I was copying, freeing the space back up, but many Gnome programs (File Manager) were not responding. After restarting, GDM loads fine, but when I enter my password, the screen freezes. I can't move my cursor and nothing loads. Hitting CTRL+ALT+F2 allows me to get back to GDM.

I can still SSH in from another box. I was able to create a new user, and that user can login just fine.

I've tried resetting what I can. I ran:

dconf -f /org/gnome/

And deleted:

.config/dconf/user

I'm at a bit of a loss for what's going on.

Results of

sudo journalctl -b

http://0x0.st/8TMb.txt

Last edited by clegg89 (2025-02-23 02:44:07)

clegg89

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Registered: 2025-02-22

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome freezes after user login

After banging my head against this for a while I still haven't made much progress. I disabled the sunshine service to cleanup the logs, and reinstalled gdm and xdg-desktop-portal. No luck. I have found out that it's not a complete freeze, rather after a while gnome-session times out and I get kicked back to the login selection for GDM.

Here is the sudo journalctl -b prior to any login attempts: http://0x0.st/8Tfc.txt

And here is one after a single login attempt to the broken account: http://0x0.st/8TfA.txt

The general error I think comes around these lines:

Feb 22 21:08:29 baratheon systemd[1751]: Created slice Slice /app/gnome-session-manager.
Feb 22 21:08:29 baratheon systemd[1751]: Reached target GNOME Wayland Session.
Feb 22 21:08:29 baratheon systemd[1751]: Reached target Session services which should run early before the graphical session is brought up.
Feb 22 21:08:29 baratheon systemd[1751]: Reached target GNOME Shell.
Feb 22 21:08:29 baratheon systemd[1751]: Starting Monitor Session leader for GNOME Session...
Feb 22 21:08:29 baratheon systemd[1751]: Started Monitor Session leader for GNOME Session.
Feb 22 21:08:29 baratheon systemd[1751]: Reached target Tasks to be run before GNOME Session starts.
Feb 22 21:08:29 baratheon systemd[1751]: Starting GNOME Session Manager (session: gnome)...
Feb 22 21:08:50 baratheon systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Deactivated successfully.
Feb 22 21:09:59 baratheon systemd[1751]: gnome-session-manager@gnome.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Feb 22 21:11:29 baratheon systemd[1751]: gnome-session-manager@gnome.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out. Killing.
Feb 22 21:11:29 baratheon systemd[1751]: gnome-session-manager@gnome.service: Killing process 2101 (gnome-session-b) with signal SIGKILL.
Feb 22 21:11:29 baratheon systemd[1751]: gnome-session-manager@gnome.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
Feb 22 21:11:29 baratheon systemd[1751]: gnome-session-manager@gnome.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Feb 22 21:11:29 baratheon systemd[1751]: Stopped GNOME Session Manager (session: gnome).
Feb 22 21:11:29 baratheon systemd[1751]: gnome-session-manager@gnome.service: Consumed 10.682s CPU time, 177.4M memory peak.
Feb 22 21:11:29 baratheon systemd[1751]: gnome-session-manager@gnome.service: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies.

Though I'm not sure what the cause is or how to go about finding it.

clegg89

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Registered: 2025-02-22

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome freezes after user login

I managed to solve it, it ended up being the same problem as this post, despite having slightly different symptoms (my session status would reach active, but would still time out).

After moving a directory out of .local/share/applications that contained a windows executable I was able to login without issue.