Bug#729877: black screen with cursor no greeter

2013-11-18 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
reassign 729877 gnome-shell affects 729877 gdm3 thanks On 18/11/13 20:22, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote: > On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 19:11 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > >> Yes, CONFIG_CGROUPS is needed atm, otherwise logind fails to create a >> session, >> then libpam-systemd doesn't set the r

Bug#729877: Re: Bug#729877: black screen with cursor no greeter

2013-11-18 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 19:11 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Yes, CONFIG_CGROUPS is needed atm, otherwise logind fails to create a session, > then libpam-systemd doesn't set the required env variables (particularly > XDG_SESSION_ID) and the greeter fails to run. (see bug #729674). > > I am

Bug#729877: Re: Bug#729877: black screen with cursor no greeter

2013-11-18 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
retitle 729877 gdm3: requires kernel with cgroups support thanks On 18/11/13 16:48, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 18/11/13 14:35, Brent S. Elmer wrote: >> Kernel: Linux 3.10.7.130911 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) > > That's not a standard Debian kernel. My guess would be that some options > required

Bug#729877: black screen with cursor no greeter

2013-11-18 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 15:48 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 18/11/13 14:35, Brent S. Elmer wrote: > > Kernel: Linux 3.10.7.130911 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) > > That's not a standard Debian kernel. My guess would be that some options > required by systemd-logind are not enabled: in particular,

Bug#729877: black screen with cursor no greeter

2013-11-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On 18/11/13 14:35, Brent S. Elmer wrote: > Kernel: Linux 3.10.7.130911 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) That's not a standard Debian kernel. My guess would be that some options required by systemd-logind are not enabled: in particular, it needs CONFIG_CGROUPS. Please check that the kernel compilation

Bug#729877: black screen with cursor no greeter

2013-11-18 Thread Brent S. Elmer
ls -l on /sys shows that the permissions are dr-xr-xr-x I suppose that is why the mkdir fails. I get the same error if I try to create /sys/fs/cgroup using mkdir with root. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Bug#729877: black screen with cursor no greeter

2013-11-18 Thread Brent S. Elmer
I forgot to mention, I also ran pam-auth-update --force as was mentioned in one of the bug reports. I did not help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#729877: black screen with cursor no greeter

2013-11-18 Thread Brent S. Elmer
Package: gdm3 Version: 3.8.4-6 Severity: serious I upgrade my jessie thinkpad w500 today with the new gdm3 and gnome packages that recently moved to testing. When I rebooted, I do not get a gdm3 greeter to log in. I only get a black screen with a cursor that does move around the screen. -- Sy