[Mageia-dev] Graphical Boot stalled in current cauldron

Frank Griffin ftg at roadrunner.com
Tue Nov 6 15:59:39 CET 2012


On 11/06/2012 08:49 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 06/11/12 12:28 did gyre and gimble:
>> However, if you ALT-F2 to tty2, getty
>> comes up, and if you do "service dm start", the DM starts, oddly enough,
>> on tty1.
> That's not odd. gdm is meant to always come up on tty1.

I know, but it looked like systemd was still holding tty1.

> Can you check what "systemctl status prefdm.service" says immediately 
> after booting? 

It showed gdm segfaulting, so I installed gdm-debug, rebooted, and ran
        systemctl status --lines=100 --no-pager prefdm.service
and got (with the entries prior to this boot deleted):

prefdm.service - Display Manager
           Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/prefdm.service; static)
           Active: inactive (dead)
           CGroup: name=systemd:/system/prefdm.service

Nov 06 09:31:09 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: WARNING: 
GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.001836 seconds
Nov 06 09:31:10 localhost.localdomain gdm-simple-slave[24667]: WARNING: 
Failed to give slave programs access to the display. Trying to proceed.
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-simple-slave[24667]: WARNING: 
Tried to look up non-existent conversation gdm-launch-environment
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Stopping Display 
Manager...
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: 
******************* START ********************************
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 0: 
/usr/sbin/gdm-binary() [0x42a1ab]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 1: 
/usr/sbin/gdm-binary() [0x42a59a]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 2: 
/lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0xf000) [0x7fb678436000]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 3: 
/lib64/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x35) [0x7fb6780af815]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 4: 
/lib64/libc.so.6(abort+0x148) [0x7fb6780b0e78]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 5: 
/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_assertion_message+0x137) [0x7fb678ecb8f7]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 6: 
/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_assertion_message_error+0x9f) [0x7fb678ecbb2f]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 7: 
/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0(+0xda585) [0x7fb679480585]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 8: 
/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0(+0xdac9e) [0x7fb679480c9e]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 9: 
/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0(g_dbus_object_manager_server_unexport+0x6c) 
[0x7fb6794816ac]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 10: 
/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_hash_table_find+0x9b) [0x7fb678e9a1bb]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 11: 
/usr/sbin/gdm-binary() [0x40b03d]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 12: 
/usr/sbin/gdm-binary() [0x41115c]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 13: 
/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_object_unref+0x1e8) [0x7fb67916d0b8]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 14: 
/usr/sbin/gdm-binary() [0x409507]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 15: 
/lib64/libffi.so.6(ffi_call_unix64+0x4c) [0x7fb677843e68]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 16: 
/lib64/libffi.so.6(ffi_call+0x1e0) [0x7fb677843870]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[8870]: Frame 17: 
/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_cclosure_marshal_generic+0x1fb) 
[0x7fb679168abb]
Nov 06 09:31:31 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: prefdm.service: main 
process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 06 09:31:32 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Stopped Display Manager.
Nov 06 09:31:32 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit prefdm.service 
entered failed state
Nov 06 09:38:36 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Display Manager.
Nov 06 09:38:38 localhost.localdomain gdm-simple-slave[16435]: WARNING: 
Failed to give slave programs access to the display. Trying to proceed.
Nov 06 09:39:00 localhost.localdomain gdm-password][18296]: 
pam_succeed_if(gdm-password:auth): requirement "user ingroup 
nopasswdlogin" not met by user "ftg"
Nov 06 09:39:05 localhost.localdomain gdm-password][18296]: 
pam_tcb(gdm-password:auth): Authentication passed for ftg from (uid=0)
Nov 06 09:39:05 localhost.localdomain gdm-simple-slave[16435]: WARNING: 
Failed to remove slave program access to the display. Trying to proceed.
Nov 06 09:39:05 localhost.localdomain gdm-simple-slave[16435]: WARNING: 
Child process -16470 was already dead.
Nov 06 09:48:57 localhost.localdomain gdm-binary[16377]: WARNING: 
GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.001804 seconds
Nov 06 09:48:58 localhost.localdomain gdm-simple-slave[6995]: WARNING: 
Failed to give slave programs access to the display. Trying to proceed.
Nov 06 09:49:58 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Stopping Display 
Manager...
Nov 06 09:49:58 localhost.localdomain gdm-simple-slave[6995]: 
GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_ref: assertion `object->ref_count > 0' 
failed
Nov 06 09:49:59 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Stopped Display Manager.



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