GDM show no users

toffyrn · 2010-03-10 08:22:58

After a recent upgrade GDM shows no users in its users list. (Not even the posibility to type the username)
The only thing to choose is either "restart" or "shutdown", however none of them works.

I see multiple lines in gdm/:0-greeter.log stating problems with "devkit-power-gobject" and then "Unable to find users: no seat-id found"

I have tried to downgrade packages to an earlier version that worked, but with no luck. So a file or some configuration must be wrong?

Anyone seen this?

:0-greeter.log:

gnome-session[5518]: devkit-power-gobject-WARNING: Couldn't enumerate devices: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
Advarsel fra vindushåndterer: Feil under lesing av lagret sesjonsfil /var/lib/gdm/.config/metacity/sessions/109850e91df61d387e126820823898399000000055180003.ms: Feil under åpning av fil «/var/lib/gdm/.config/metacity/sessions/109850e91df61d387e126820823898399000000055180003.ms»: Ingen slik fil eller filkatalog
** (process:5534): DEBUG: Greeter session pid=5534 display=:0.0 xauthority=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-nAQ3UT/database

(gnome-power-manager:5533): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Couldn't enumerate devices: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:5535): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Unable to determine the session we are in: Remote Exception invoking org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GetSessionForUnixProcess() on /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager at name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
gdm-simple-greeter[5534]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_param_spec_flags: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_FLAGS (flags_type)' failed
gdm-simple-greeter[5534]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_class_install_property: assertion `G_IS_PARAM_SPEC (pspec)' failed

(gnome-power-manager:5533): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Error invoking GetAll() to get properties: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

(gnome-power-manager:5533): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Couldn't enumerate devices: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

(gnome-power-manager:5533): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Couldn't enumerate devices: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

(gnome-power-manager:5533): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Error invoking GetAll() to get properties: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
gdm-simple-greeter[5534]: WARNING: Unable to read from file /etc/arch-release

(gnome-power-manager:5533): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Couldn't enumerate devices: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
gdm-simple-greeter[5534]: devkit-power-gobject-WARNING: Couldn't enumerate devices: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

(gnome-power-manager:5533): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Error invoking GetAll() to get properties: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
gdm-simple-greeter[5534]: devkit-power-gobject-WARNING: Error invoking GetAll() to get properties: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

(gnome-power-manager:5533): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Couldn't enumerate devices: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

(gnome-power-manager:5533): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Error invoking GetAll() to get properties: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

(gnome-power-manager:5533): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Error invoking GetAll() to get properties: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

(gnome-power-manager:5533): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Error invoking GetAll() to get properties: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

(gnome-power-manager:5533): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Error invoking GetAll() to get properties: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
gdm-simple-greeter[5534]: Pango-WARNING: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()
gdm-simple-greeter[5534]: devkit-power-gobject-WARNING: Couldn't enumerate devices: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
gdm-simple-greeter[5534]: devkit-power-gobject-WARNING: Error invoking GetAll() to get properties: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
Advarsel fra vindushåndterer: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1200022 (Pålogging)
Advarsel fra vindushåndterer: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Advarsel fra vindushåndterer: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1200022 (Pålogging)
Advarsel fra vindushåndterer: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
gdm-simple-greeter[5534]: WARNING: Unable to find users: no seat-id found
Advarsel fra vindushåndterer: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct.
Advarsel fra vindushåndterer: Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with a timestamp of 0.  This shouldn't happen!
gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 11 (Ressursen midlertidig utilgjengelig) on X server :0.0.

n0dix · 2010-03-10 14:41:56

Can you post you Xorg.0.log file?
Maybe this bug report help you: link

toffyrn · 2010-03-10 17:00:01

I did find a gentoo bug with a workaround that worked.

So I did a "chmod o+x /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper"
and now everything is working properly.

However I have a bad feeling that some user/group numbers are incorrect or something, and next dbus upgrade will reset the filepermissions...

n0dix · 2010-03-10 17:03:17

toffyrn wrote:

I did find a gentoo bug with a workaround that worked.
So I did a "chmod o+x /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper"
and now everything is working properly.
However I have a bad feeling that some user/group numbers are incorrect or something, and next dbus upgrade will reset the filepermissions...

you have to wait, ... and cross your fingers.

loafer · 2010-03-10 19:53:18

Are all of your packages up-to-date? This bug showed itself a while back but should be fixed now:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87137

toffyrn · 2010-03-11 07:08:02

yep. Seems like this problem was "introduced" with latest dbus update. (1.2.20-1)

paulwyatt · 2010-06-20 01:22:33

Everything was fine yesterday, but I'm posting this from Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) because today's upgrade to 2.6.34-2 seems to have messed up gdm. I have these repositories enabled:

paul@maverick:~$ sudo chroot /mnt su
[root@maverick /]# yaourt -Sy --aur
:: Synchronising package databases...
 gnome-unstable is up to date
 testing is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 community-testing is up to date
 archlinuxfr is up to date
 paktahn is up to date

Extract from /var/log/pacman.log:

[2010-06-19 14:43] starting full system upgrade
[2010-06-19 14:44] Running '/usr/bin/pacman -S -u'
[2010-06-19 14:44] starting full system upgrade
[2010-06-19 14:45] removed kernel26-firmware (2.6.34-1)
[2010-06-19 14:45] installed linux-firmware (20100606-1)

...

[2010-06-19 14:46] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.34-1 -> 2.6.34-2)
[2010-06-19 14:46] upgraded kernel26-headers (2.6.34-1 -> 2.6.34-2)

Extract from /var/log/everything.log:

Jun 16 18:57:59 arch gnome-session[2987]: atk-bridge-WARNING: AT_SPI_REGISTRY was not started at session startup.
Jun 16 18:57:59 arch gnome-session[2987]: atk-bridge-WARNING: IOR not set.
Jun 16 18:57:59 arch gnome-session[2987]: atk-bridge-WARNING: Could not locate registry
Jun 16 18:58:00 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3018]: Gtk-WARNING: Locale not supported by C library.
Jun 16 18:58:00 arch     Using: the fallback 'C' locale.
Jun 16 18:58:00 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3018]: atk-bridge-WARNING: AT_SPI_REGISTRY was not started at session startup.
Jun 16 18:58:00 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3018]: atk-bridge-WARNING: IOR not set.
Jun 16 18:58:00 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3018]: atk-bridge-WARNING: Could not locate registry
Jun 16 18:58:00 arch polkitd[3023]: started daemon version 0.96 using authority implementation `local' version `0.96'
Jun 16 18:58:00 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3018]: Gtk-WARNING: gtkwidget.c:5628: widget not within a GtkWindow
Jun 16 18:58:00 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3018]: WARNING: Unable to read from file /etc/arch-release
Jun 16 18:58:04 arch dhcpcd[1722]: eth1: leased 192.168.1.64 for 86400 seconds
Jun 16 18:58:04 arch dhcpcd[1722]: forked to background, child pid 3043
Jun 16 18:58:08 arch kernel: fuse init (API version 7.13)
Jun 16 19:26:25 arch dbus-daemon: [system] Reloaded configuration
Jun 16 19:26:25 arch dbus-daemon: [system] Reloaded configuration
Jun 16 19:26:25 arch dbus-daemon: [system] Reloaded configuration
Jun 16 19:28:18 arch dbus-daemon: [system] Reloaded configuration
Jun 16 19:28:18 arch dbus-daemon: [system] Reloaded configuration
Jun 16 19:28:18 arch dbus-daemon: [system] Reloaded configuration
Jun 16 19:28:18 arch dbus-daemon: [system] Reloaded configuration
Jun 16 20:27:52 arch -- MARK --
Jun 16 20:47:21 arch shutdown[9513]: shutting down for system reboot
Jun 16 20:47:21 arch init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Jun 16 20:47:22 arch dhcpcd[3043]: received SIGTERM, stopping
Jun 16 20:47:22 arch dhcpcd[3043]: eth1: removing interface
Jun 16 20:47:22 arch kernel: sky2 0000:03:00.0: eth1: disabling interface
Jun 16 20:47:23 arch syslog-ng[1628]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Jun 16 20:47:23 arch syslog-ng[1628]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.1.1'
Jun 17 05:12:02 arch syslog-ng[1609]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.1.1'
Jun 17 05:12:02 arch kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Jun 17 05:12:02 arch kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Jun 17 05:12:02 arch kernel: Linux version 2.6.34-ARCH (tobias@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.5.0 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon May 17 08:36:58 UTC 2010
Jun 17 05:12:02 arch kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

---------------

un 19 14:48:00 arch gnome-session[3119]: atk-bridge-WARNING: AT_SPI_REGISTRY was not started at session startup.
Jun 19 14:48:00 arch gnome-session[3119]: atk-bridge-WARNING: IOR not set.
Jun 19 14:48:00 arch gnome-session[3119]: atk-bridge-WARNING: Could not locate registry
Jun 19 14:48:00 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3152]: Gtk-WARNING: Locale not supported by C library.
Jun 19 14:48:00 arch     Using: the fallback 'C' locale.
Jun 19 14:48:00 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3152]: atk-bridge-WARNING: AT_SPI_REGISTRY was not started at session startup.
Jun 19 14:48:00 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3152]: atk-bridge-WARNING: IOR not set.
Jun 19 14:48:00 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3152]: atk-bridge-WARNING: Could not locate registry
Jun 19 14:48:01 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3152]: devkit-power-gobject-WARNING: Couldn't enumerate devices: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127
Jun 19 14:48:01 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3152]: devkit-power-gobject-WARNING: Error invoking GetAll() to get properties: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127
Jun 19 14:48:01 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3152]: Gtk-WARNING: gtkwidget.c:5628: widget not within a GtkWindow
Jun 19 14:48:01 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3152]: WARNING: Unable to read from file /etc/arch-release
Jun 19 14:48:01 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3152]: WARNING: Unable to find users: no seat-id found
Jun 19 14:48:28 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3152]: CRITICAL: dbus_g_error_get_name: assertion `error->code == DBUS_GERROR_REMOTE_EXCEPTION' failed
Jun 19 14:48:47 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3152]: CRITICAL: dbus_g_error_get_name: assertion `error->code == DBUS_GERROR_REMOTE_EXCEPTION' failed
Jun 19 14:49:29 arch shutdown[7654]: shutting down for system reboot
Jun 19 14:49:29 arch init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Jun 19 14:49:29 arch gdm-simple-slave[1762]: WARNING: Unable to close session: no session open
Jun 19 14:49:30 arch shutdown[7657]: shutting down for system reboot
Jun 19 14:49:30 arch dhcpcd[3143]: received SIGTERM, stopping
Jun 19 14:49:30 arch dhcpcd[3143]: eth1: removing interface
Jun 19 14:49:30 arch kernel: sky2 0000:03:00.0: eth1: disabling interface
Jun 19 14:49:30 arch syslog-ng[1611]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
Jun 19 14:49:30 arch syslog-ng[1611]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.1Booted into .1'

polkitd does not start. Instead I see:

Jun 19 14:48:01 arch gdm-simple-greeter[3152]: devkit-power-gobject-WARNING: Couldn't enumerate devices: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127
...

Booted into recovery mode, removed nvidia-beta 256.29-2 and installed nvidia-beta 256.35-1.

Unfortunately this did nothing to resolve the problem.

Is anyone else experiencing the same issue after the upgrade to 2.6.34-2?

giner · 2010-08-09 15:58:05

I have the same problem - no users during but. Just sudo /etc/rc.d/gdm restart helps.

wonder · 2010-08-09 16:00:12

delete /var/log/ConsoleKit/history

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GDM show no users

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