GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 660696
black screen with clock cursor at gdm login screen
Last modified: 2011-10-10 17:52:57 UTC
When I attempt to run gdm 3.2,, I only got a black screen with the mouse cursor a s clock. This means X is running but that nothing is displayed on screen gnome-shell IS installed so this is not bug #660409 also gnome-shell is able to run on this CG Geforce 8300 GS I got this in /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log socket(): Famille d'adresses non supportée par le protocole (gnome-settings-daemon:6141): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_window_set_wmclass: shouldn't set wmclass after window is realized! Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Impossible de charger le thème « Clearlooks » : Impossible de trouver un fichier valide pour le thème Clearlooks ** (process:6162): DEBUG: Greeter session pid=6162 display=:0 xauthority=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-Nb6B88/database Failed to play sound: File or data not found gdm-simple-greeter[6162]: Gtk-WARNING: gtkwidget.c:6796: widget not within a GtkWindow gdm-simple-greeter[6162]: WARNING: Unable to read from file /etc/arch-release gdm-simple-greeter[6162]: Gtk-WARNING: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -47 and height -47 glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel: release 3.0-ARCH=3.0.0 gives version code 196608 Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0xc00007 (Fenêtre d) Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed. Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct. Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with a timestamp of 0. This shouldn't happen! (gnome-settings-daemon:6141): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:6163): Gdk-WARNING **: polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1: Fatal IO error 11 (Ressource temporairement non disponible) on X server :0.
I fixed this by running: chage -E -1 gdm thanks to krest on archlinux forum I don't know why it began to happen only after gnome 3.2 upgrade. I don't see anything suspiscious in gdm package install.
I am having the same issue and the suggestion did not work for me, although I couldn't find the according information in the arch forum...Could you please provide the link? Apart from this it is rather a workaround than a solution and should be fixed anyway.
you will get nothing more in the forum thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=127845 If this command did not work, check that gdm is a valid account, and has not expired. may be looking around issue about gdm user too. i fyour system use gdm user...