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Bug 734847 - GDM 3.12 Is Preventing Some Sessions From Starting
GDM 3.12 Is Preventing Some Sessions From Starting
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.12.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-08-15 10:38 UTC by Antoine Saroufim
Modified: 2015-03-06 14:19 UTC
See Also:
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Description Antoine Saroufim 2014-08-15 10:38:19 UTC 
GDM 3.12 is preventing KDE4, KF5, and Budgie sessions from starting. When the user attempts to log in to one of those sessions via GDM, the user would either be immediately logged out (Budgie) or would be stuck at the splash screen (KDE4, KF5). Here are some downstream bug reports about the issue: 
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889139
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=755761
Comment 1 Antoine Saroufim 2014-08-15 10:39:15 UTC 
One more bug report: https://github.com/evolve-os/budgie-desktop/issues/62
Comment 2 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2014-08-15 14:23:23 UTC 
The budgie report seems to be an unrelated issue.

For KDE: Can you turn on debugging? Go into /etc/gdm/custom.conf and add Enable=true under the debug section.

Then some logs should appear. If you have the systemd journal, they're in that, otherwise they'll be dumped to /var/log/gdm/. Can you attach those?
Comment 3 Antoine Saroufim 2014-08-15 15:10:12 UTC 
Hello.
journalctl log: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44544435/journalctl2.log
/var/log/gdm log: /home/Vagrant/Dropbox/Public/:0.log
Comment 4 Antoine Saroufim 2014-08-15 15:11:17 UTC 
Dear God. The embarrassment. The var/log/gdm log is actually here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44544435/%3A0.log
Too much copy/pasting can ruin a person's concentration. Forgive me.
Comment 5 Johan Manuel 2014-08-21 09:13:25 UTC 
Hello,
I have the same problem on Archlinux, choosing KDE in GDM results in the splash screen stuck at the "Drive" icon (vanilla KDE).
Starting KDE with startx works fine.
Comment 6 Antoine Saroufim 2015-03-06 08:07:04 UTC 
I can no longer confirm the issue. GDM 3.14 and GDM 3.15 are working fine with non-GNOME sessions.
Comment 7 Ray Strode [halfline] 2015-03-06 14:19:07 UTC 
alright thanks.