[Bug 495252] Re: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen
[Expired for gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495252 Title: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 495252] Re: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen
the monitors.xml is what is written by the gnome-display-properties configuration dialog, what you described before seems to be that you managed to have the tools writting screen settings which were not working on your configuration, it would be interesting to know if those worked and stopped due to changes in your settings or the driver or if the configuration written was buggy -- Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 495252] Re: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen
As of last December, with the version of ~/.config/monitors.xml attached to comment #3 present, the problem occurred. With it absent, it did not. Several updates to the kernel and other components have happened in the intervening time. gnome-control-center is currently at version 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1, and according to Update Manager all installed packages are up to date. I currently have no monitors.xml file, and don't know exactly how it came into existence. I just tried restoring the bad monitors.xml file, and the observed behavior is that I was able to log in, got a complete desktop at the expected display resolution, but had no mouse cursor at all. Driving by dead reckoning, I was able to poke at a few things to demonstrate that X and the desktop seemed to be otherwise functional, and succeeded at logging out again. It seems plausible that there are some remaining issues with gnome- control-center or some related component, but I don't know how to directly reproduce the original issue. -- Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 495252] Re: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions: * Is this reproducible? * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? This will help us to find and resolve the problem. ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 495252] Re: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen
I can confirm that changing display resolution seems to be a necessary trigger for the problem -- I'd originally left this detail out of my bug493016 report, but Bryce suggested they might be dups, and this report reminded me I'd tweaked resolution. Again, only one monitor on this ancient box, so 2-display config isn't a necessary trigger. -- Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 495252] Re: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen
There is one physical VGA connector on the card, and no other video output such as a TV out connector, so I certainly didn't deliberately configure more than one monitor. I am reasonably certain that this specific CRT is also the only monitor that has been connected to this box since Ubuntu was installed at all. I had used the GNOME tools to change the display resolution, and been puzzled by that setting not sticking across a power cycle. After changing it a second time, it appeared to stick, and I stopped worrying about it. Shortly after that an update to the kernel, gdm and the screensaver (among other random things) was pushed and I had this problem. It doesn't look like the GNOME tools allow configuring a second monitor if one isn't actually plugged in and available so it should be hard to do by accident. -- Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 495252] Re: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen
did you ever activate several monitors using the GNOME tools? -- Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 495252] Re: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen
That file is actually provided by the gnome display configuration tools, so moving this bug to gnome-control-center. Perhaps your output names changed or something, and gnome-display- properties is not handling the error that this causes. ** Package changed: xorg (Ubuntu) => gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) -- Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 495252] Re: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen
I have found a workaround, and appear to have repaired my original user account's settings. I found by comparing the various settings files and folders that the bad user had a file named ~/.config/monitors.xml but the newly created and usable user did not. Renaming that file was sufficient to allow my bad user to log into GNOME again. I've attached the offending file so that further investigation can focus on why this configuration file causes the GNOME session to not start successfully. Aside from the fact that it appears to indicate that I have two monitors of differing resolutions located on top of each other, I'm not sure what is wrong. If the content is bad, then GNOME should have rejected it and used some sensible fallback configuration. At minimum, it should have logged the problem somewhere. ** Attachment added: "Originally ~/.config/monitors.xml" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36798632/monitors.xml.txt -- Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 495252] Re: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen
Interesting. A brand new user account gets a working session. I created a new user, and tried logging in to the default GNOME session. This gave me the default desktop, panels and menus. At this point, I can see that even a "successful" login produces a fair number of error messages in the .xsession_errors file. In particular, the message that had seemed suspicious to me initially about an assertion failure in gnome-settings-daemon is still there. However, later messages in the failed session such as "Connection reset by peer" and "Resource temporarily unavailable" referring to the X server do not appear in the successful session. I would like to figure out what significant difference there is between the old and new accounts that causes the session to fail, both so I can repair my original account, and so that whatever bug caused the settings to be broken in the update can be repaired. -- Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 495252] Re: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 495252] Re: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672601/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672602/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672603/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "Lspci.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672604/Lspci.txt ** Attachment added: "PciDisplay.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672605/PciDisplay.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcCpuinfo.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672606/ProcCpuinfo.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcInterrupts.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672607/ProcInterrupts.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcModules.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672609/ProcModules.txt ** Attachment added: "UdevDb.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672610/UdevDb.txt ** Attachment added: "UdevLog.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672611/UdevLog.txt ** Attachment added: "XorgLog.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672612/XorgLog.txt ** Attachment added: "XorgLogOld.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672613/XorgLogOld.txt ** Attachment added: "Xrandr.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672614/Xrandr.txt ** Attachment added: "glxinfo.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672615/glxinfo.txt ** Attachment added: "monitors.xml.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672616/monitors.xml.txt ** Attachment added: "setxkbmap.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672617/setxkbmap.txt ** Attachment added: "xdpyinfo.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672618/xdpyinfo.txt ** Attachment added: "xkbcomp.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672619/xkbcomp.txt -- Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
