Bug#531520: Can't access my gnome desktop
tag 531520 - patch thanks Le mardi 02 juin 2009 à 03:23 +0200, ad...@foolcontrol.org a écrit : After this mornings update, everything was working fine until I actually restarted my computer and I wanted to login into my gnome session. gdm showed up nicely, but the thing is that it just wouldn't log in, that is it would just show my gnome desktop. There was nothing but the blank screen, I first tried renaming my gnome2 dir, then I tried creating a new user and loging in with that user, but nothing except that I managed to see this error message at one point: /* There is a problem with the configuration server, (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 existed with status 256) */ What is the process list (ps auxwww) at the moment the login is locked up this way? To relate it with another bug, is compiz installed on your system? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée
Bug#531520: Can't access my gnome desktop
What is the process list (ps auxwww) at the moment the login is locked up this way? Please see the attachment file To relate it with another bug, is compiz installed on your system? Yes, 0.8.2-6 Also if it means anything, exact workaround procedure would be to remove: 1. gnome-session (2.26.1-5) 2. gnome-session-bin (2.26.1-5) 3. gnome-desktop-environment Then, downgrade gnome-settings-deamon to 2.24.1-3, install gnome-session 2.22.3-3 and gnome-desktop-environment. After these steps you'll get your gnome working once again. Adnan On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 11:16 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: tag 531520 - patch thanks Le mardi 02 juin 2009 à 03:23 +0200, ad...@foolcontrol.org a écrit : After this mornings update, everything was working fine until I actually restarted my computer and I wanted to login into my gnome session. gdm showed up nicely, but the thing is that it just wouldn't log in, that is it would just show my gnome desktop. There was nothing but the blank screen, I first tried renaming my gnome2 dir, then I tried creating a new user and loging in with that user, but nothing except that I managed to see this error message at one point: /* There is a problem with the configuration server, (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 existed with status 256) */ What is the process list (ps auxwww) at the moment the login is locked up this way? To relate it with another bug, is compiz installed on your system? USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 2.5 0.0 10316 744 ?Ss 11:38 0:01 init [2] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [kthreadd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [migration/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [watchdog/0] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [migration/1] root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1] root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [watchdog/1] root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [cpuset] root10 0.4 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [events/0] root11 0.5 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [events/1] root12 0.1 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [work_on_cpu/0] root13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [work_on_cpu/1] root14 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [khelper] root17 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [netns] root75 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [kintegrityd/0] root76 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [kintegrityd/1] root78 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [kblockd/0] root79 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [kblockd/1] root81 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [kacpid] root82 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [kacpi_notify] root 155 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd] root 161 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [khubd] root 164 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [kseriod] root 194 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [kondemand/0] root 195 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [kondemand/1] root 222 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S11:38 0:00 [pdflush] root 223 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S11:38 0:00 [pdflush] root 224 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [kswapd0] root 225 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [aio/0] root 226 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [aio/1] root 418 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [kstriped] root 665 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [ata/0] root 666 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [ata/1] root 667 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [ata_aux] root 937 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [scsi_eh_0] root 938 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [scsi_eh_1] root 940 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [scsi_eh_2] root 1144 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [kjournald] root 1219 0.3 0.0 16744 1012 ?Ss 11:38 0:00 udevd --daemon root 1560 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [iwlagn/0] root 1561 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [iwlagn/1] root 1562 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [phy0] root 1734 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [kpsmoused] root 1794 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 11:38 0:00 [ktpacpid] root 1895 0.0 0.0
Bug#531520: Can't access my gnome desktop
Package: gnome-session Version: 2.26.1-5 Severity: important Tags: patch I understand that Gnome is going through a huge migration process, and I really love what I see from new Gnome in Debian, however there's a problem with gnome-session 2.26.1-5 This workaround may be clumsy, but this is how I got it all sorted and working. After this mornings update, everything was working fine until I actually restarted my computer and I wanted to login into my gnome session. gdm showed up nicely, but the thing is that it just wouldn't log in, that is it would just show my gnome desktop. There was nothing but the blank screen, I first tried renaming my gnome2 dir, then I tried creating a new user and loging in with that user, but nothing except that I managed to see this error message at one point: /* There is a problem with the configuration server, (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 existed with status 256) */ Then I went through many trivial stepss, from reinstalling my whole gnome-desktop-environment to many other options, nothing worked. After brief analysis I come to conclusion gnome-session 2.26.1-5 was to blame, all aptitude suggested was to remove gnome which is meta package AFAIK, I followed advice after which I was left without many gnome related packages and basically without working gnome desktop environment. Please note that in this process, I saw a thread with similar problem on Sidux forums which suggested that one of the gstreamer plugins is to blame, I end up removing all of the gstreamer plugins which in the ends leaves me with more Gnome packages being removed. Once again, I was left with gnome-session 2.26.1-5 being installed on my system. In the end, I simply downgrade gnome-session to 2.22.3-3 which also brought removed gnome-desktop-environment package with it. My gnome desktop is working perfectly, it even gave me a resolution to Bluetooth applet does not start bug (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525901) Regards, Adnan -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (200, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gnome-session depends on: ii gconf2 2.26.2-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii gnome-control-center 1:2.26.0-1utilities to configure the GNOME d ii gnome-settings-daemon 2.24.1-3 daemon handling the GNOME session ii libatk1.0-01.26.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.24.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libc6 2.9-13GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-31.2.14-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.80-4simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgconf2-42.26.2-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 2.26.1-1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-02.26.0-1 The GNOME library - runtime files ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgtk2.0-02.16.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice62:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii liborbit2 1:2.14.17-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.24.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libsm6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 Session Management library ii libwrap0 7.6.q-16 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 2:1.2.1-1 X11 client-side library ii libxau61:1.0.4-2 X11 authorisation library Versions of packages gnome-session recommends: ii dbus-x11 1.2.14-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii gnome-panel 2.26.2-1 launcher and docking facility for ii metacity 1:2.24.0-2 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma ii nautilus 2.26.2-5 file manager and graphical shell f Versions of packages gnome-session suggests: ii desktop-base 5.0.5 common files for the Debian Deskto ii gnome-user-guide [gnome2-user 2.24.2-2 GNOME user's guide -- no debconf information signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
