[Bug 784998] New: gdm does not start after update on 13.10.2012
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c0 Summary: gdm does not start after update on 13.10.2012 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.2 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: GNOME AssignedTo: bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mail@frank-ansari.de QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Created an attachment (id=509473) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=509473) gdm logfiles User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.94 Safari/537.4 After I got the latest updates on 13.10.2012 the desktop fails to start after booting. This did not happen before with this version. I have no idea what is going on: the only "fix" so far was to put /usr/sbin/gdm in /etc/init.d/after.local which is a very crude workaround of course. Please fix this. Frank Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c Frank Ansari <mail@frank-ansari.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P1 - Urgent -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c Frank Ansari <mail@frank-ansari.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Target Milestone|--- |Final -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c1 Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P1 - Urgent |P5 - None CC| |dimstar@opensuse.org --- Comment #1 from Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> 2012-10-14 14:05:44 UTC --- Can you please give a list of your repositories: zypper lr -u And also, any idea what got updated these days? I only see a kernel patch that went out to the public. (please attach /var/log/zypp/history) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |mail@frank-ansari.de -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c2 --- Comment #2 from Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> 2012-10-14 14:12:22 UTC --- The gdm logs seem not to show anything in particular. You mention the "desktop fails to start": Does that mean GDM comes up completely and you can login, but the the user session does not work? Any error messages? Or how does this behave? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c3 --- Comment #3 from Frank Ansari <mail@frank-ansari.de> 2012-10-14 14:16:22 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=509474) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=509474) zypper lr -u -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c4 --- Comment #4 from Frank Ansari <mail@frank-ansari.de> 2012-10-14 14:23:00 UTC --- Some days ago I installed "VirtualBox". But the system worked even after this. Yesterday I was watching "Tagesschau" from ARD Mediathek and then the system prompted me for updating and I agreed to this. After this my system was booting but it remained at the boot logo (I use grub2 and I have the graphical logo of SUSE). It does not come the the X Window. I don't get the login prompt. Only thing I can still do is press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login and try my luck to do some fix. I checked with "ps ax" whether gdm or xdm are running in this situation but they don't. Doing "systemctl start xdm.servie" is hanging and does not return to the prompt. Sometime the gdm came up after several minutes. Running gdm from the command line fires up gdm immediately and gives me the login prompt for Gnome. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c5 --- Comment #5 from Frank Ansari <mail@frank-ansari.de> 2012-10-14 14:27:33 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=509475) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=509475) history of zypper -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c6 David Liang <dliang@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |dliang@suse.com --- Comment #6 from David Liang <dliang@suse.com> 2012-10-15 08:01:40 UTC --- Does your system start with init 3? What is the default init level in /etc/inittab? Or in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, does DISPLAYMANAGER set to 'gdm'. (In reply to comment #0)
Created an attachment (id=509473) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=509473) [details] gdm logfiles
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After I got the latest updates on 13.10.2012 the desktop fails to start after booting. This did not happen before with this version.
I have no idea what is going on: the only "fix" so far was to put /usr/sbin/gdm in /etc/init.d/after.local which is a very crude workaround of course.
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c7 --- Comment #7 from Frank Ansari <mail@frank-ansari.de> 2012-10-15 17:47:15 UTC --- Deault runlevel is "5". DISPLAYMANAGER is set to "gdm". It is really strange. I just started the system without the gdm entry in after.local. I checked systemctl status xdm.service several times and suddenly the gdm fired up. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c8 --- Comment #8 from Frank Ansari <mail@frank-ansari.de> 2012-10-15 17:59:46 UTC --- This it looks like after I start the system: xdm.service - LSB: X Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/xdm) Active: inactive (dead) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/xdm.service Oct 14 14:47:50 bat xdm[2568]: DEBUG Oct 14 14:47:50 bat xdm[2568]: Shutting down service gdm..done Oct 14 14:53:53 bat xdm[2351]: Starting service gdm..done Oct 14 14:54:32 bat xdm[2586]: Shutting down service gdm..done Oct 14 15:25:25 bat xdm[2773]: Starting service gdm..done Oct 14 15:32:57 bat xdm[2696]: Starting service gdm..done Oct 14 15:43:03 bat xdm[2640]: Starting service gdm..done Oct 14 21:21:35 bat xdm[2423]: Starting service gdm..done Oct 15 19:42:49 bat gdm-simple-slave[2103]: WARNING: Child process 2263 was .... When I get it started it looks like this: dm.service - LSB: X Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/xdm) Active: active (running) since Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:53:51 +0200; 2min 49s ago CGroup: name=systemd:/system/xdm.service ├ 2313 /usr/sbin/gdm ├ 2817 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display1 ├ 2819 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-dd6bZ6/database -nolisten tcp vt7 └ 2895 gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm] Oct 15 19:53:51 bat xdm[2302]: Starting service gdm..done Oct 15 19:54:01 bat gdm-simple-slave[2315]: WARNING: Child process 2371 was already dead. Oct 15 19:56:11 bat gdm-simple-slave[2817]: WARNING: Child process 2851 was already dead. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c9 --- Comment #9 from Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> 2012-10-31 22:04:51 UTC --- C(In reply to comment #5)
Created an attachment (id=509475) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=509475) [details] history of zypper
The only packages that got updated on Oct 13 seem to be (a lot of) kernel packages... I'd propose to setup your system to store dump files (instead of rejecting them) to a specific location; maybe we can at least figure out which tasks dies and create a backtrace. to configure this: Create a new folder /cores (mkdir /cores; chmod 777 /cores) (all users should be able to write there; this should not stick around but is only meant for debugging!) in /etc/sysctl.conf, add a line: kernel.core_pattern = /cores/%e-%t-%u.core in /etc/security/limits.conf, add a line * soft core unlimited On next reboot, any crashing app will create a coredump in /cores, which can be loaded with gdb. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c10 --- Comment #10 from Frank Ansari <mail@frank-ansari.de> 2012-11-01 08:52:56 UTC --- Sorry, it is too late now. I have wiped my HDD and installed Fedora 17. This is working fine. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c11 Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED InfoProvider|mail@frank-ansari.de | Resolution| |WORKSFORME --- Comment #11 from Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> 2012-11-01 08:57:54 UTC --- sorry to hear... but as the situation disappeared and seems not reproducible by others (or we'd have seen many more reports or activity in this bug, I'm afraid the only 'solution' is to close this bug. Maybe one day, we can win you back... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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