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Bug 660696 - black screen with clock cursor at gdm login screen
black screen with clock cursor at gdm login screen
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-10-02 14:26 UTC by zebul666
Modified: 2011-10-10 17:52 UTC
See Also:
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Description zebul666 2011-10-02 14:26:21 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.
Comment 1 zebul666 2011-10-09 09:32:52 UTC
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.
Comment 2 vf04 2011-10-10 13:59:48 UTC
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.
Comment 3 zebul666 2011-10-10 17:52:57 UTC
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...