GDM won't start, no adwaita, after GDM update

[Russian Watcher]

After updating the gdm, I rebooted the machine. After loading the kernel, I just ended up with a black screen.

Rebooted using the recovery kernel to check for problems. No package problems found. Unable to start failsafeX. Rebooted back to standard kernel, repeat black screen when I should get GDM presented to me.

Used Ctrl-Alt-1. Used startx from home-directory, got gnome shell started, but no Adwaita theme. Seems to have quite alot of themes missing from tweak-gnome-settings.

Wallpaper is not the usual blue with vertical-panelling but a flat light blue wallpaper. Black panel at the top works fine. Dock works fine. window title-bars seem a low-resolution gtk2 variety.

[Davide Alberelli (dadexix86)]

I think I've got more informations.
It happens also to me, it's pretty annoying, but if you start with root account gnome-shell DOES start.

If you do startx from a non-root it sends tou to a classic gnome desktop.
If you launch a terminal and try to launch gnome-shell it says
____________
$ gnome-shell
failed to create drawable

(gnome-shell:6684): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to select the newly created GLX context
Errore del window manager: Unable to initialize Clutter.
____________

I created a new user account, just to see if it was a personal configuration problem (that root doesn't have) and it doesn''t work exactly the same way.

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

So, just to clarify... If GDM is not updated, everything works fine?

[Davide Alberelli (dadexix86)]

I think of no, but I don't know how to test it.
How can I downgrade just gdm?

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm unsure. I seem to be having no problems, though.

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

I am not using the most up to date version of GDM.

[[e-mail] (cbowman57)]

Ok guys, I'm the guy that does the gNatty Gnome respin, I use UCK but my early versions I used the updated 3.0 gdm, it just didn't work right. You need to force a downgrade to the last 2.32 gdm, everything works fine, doesn't affect Unity or Gnome in any adverse way. Matter of fact gdm 3.0 introduces a path bug that shows itself when you try to launch some games such as gbrainy, probably others.

What app are you using to build your iso?

[Davide Alberelli (dadexix86)]

Ok, I just uninstalled anything (with ppa-purge) and then added again the
repos and reinstall and everything is fine!

@cbowman: yes, that bug is large known, there is another discussion about
that here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ugr-meta/+bug/778900

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[[e-mail] (cbowman57)]

Good news Davide, glad to see you've made some progress with it.

[Russian Watcher (russianwatcher)]

Davide, what do you mean you uninstalled "anything" ? Do you mean you uninstalled everything ?

Could you please provide us with the commands you used to uninstall the things you said.

[Davide Alberelli (dadexix86)]

Yes, I'm sorry, sometimes my english is veeeery bad!

Anyway, I simply used
ppa-purge ppa:ubuntugnometeam/dev
ppa-purge ppa:ubuntugnometeam/ppa-gen
and
ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

ppa-purge is a very useful utility:
http://www.webupd8.org/2009/12/remove-ppa-repositories-via-command.html

2011/7/2 Russian Watcher <email address hidden>

> Davide, what do you mean you uninstalled "anything" ? Do you mean you
> uninstalled everything ?
>
> Could you please provide us with the commands you used to uninstall the
> things you said.
>
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> Title:
> GDM won't start, no adwaita, after GDM update
>
> Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> After updating the gdm, I rebooted the machine. After loading the
> kernel, I just ended up with a black screen.
>
> Rebooted using the recovery kernel to check for problems. No package
> problems found. Unable to start failsafeX. Rebooted back to standard
> kernel, repeat black screen when I should get GDM presented to me.
>
> Used Ctrl-Alt-1. Used startx from home-directory, got gnome shell
> started, but no Adwaita theme. Seems to have quite alot of themes
> missing from tweak-gnome-settings.
>
> Wallpaper is not the usual blue with vertical-panelling but a flat
> light blue wallpaper. Black panel at the top works fine. Dock works
> fine. window title-bars seem a low-resolution gtk2 variety.
>
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[Russian Watcher (russianwatcher)]

Thanks Davide . Unfortunately, after trying out ppa-purge as you suggested, and reinstalling gnome3, I still get the same behaviour.

[Davide Alberelli (dadexix86)]

That's very strange, because ppa-purge just install the default packages,
please check with
apt-cache policy gdm
which version you have installed on your system.

Have you got any other ppas enabled on your system?

2011/7/5 Russian Watcher <email address hidden>

> Thanks Davide . Unfortunately, after trying out ppa-purge as you
> suggested, and reinstalling gnome3, I still get the same behaviour.
>
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>
> Title:
> GDM won't start, no adwaita, after GDM update
>
> Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> After updating the gdm, I rebooted the machine. After loading the
> kernel, I just ended up with a black screen.
>
> Rebooted using the recovery kernel to check for problems. No package
> problems found. Unable to start failsafeX. Rebooted back to standard
> kernel, repeat black screen when I should get GDM presented to me.
>
> Used Ctrl-Alt-1. Used startx from home-directory, got gnome shell
> started, but no Adwaita theme. Seems to have quite alot of themes
> missing from tweak-gnome-settings.
>
> Wallpaper is not the usual blue with vertical-panelling but a flat
> light blue wallpaper. Black panel at the top works fine. Dock works
> fine. window title-bars seem a low-resolution gtk2 variety.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ugr-meta/+bug/801464/+subscriptions
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[Russian Watcher (russianwatcher)]

gdm:
  Installed: 3.0.4-0ubuntu3~natty1
  Candidate: 3.0.4-0ubuntu3~natty1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.4-0ubuntu3~natty1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.32.1-0ubuntu3.2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-security/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main amd64 Packages
     2.32.1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages

PPAs installed are:
1) TOR
2) Medibuntu
3) Google Earth
4) gnome3-team/gnome3
5) ubuntugnometeam/ppa-gen

[Martin Pulec (martin-pulec)]

Hi, I guess that some related informations can be found in bug #805744. I guess it is a duplicate so I marked it as such.

[Davide Alberelli (dadexix86)]

So you didn't actually purge gnome3 ppa.

There's a new bug about the latest gdm version, because there's a
problem with some libraries.

Try to purge the ppas as I did, you will be back with a unity
system,but al least it boots and you can wait for a new version of
gdm.

2011/7/5, Russian Watcher <email address hidden>:
> gdm:
> Installed: 3.0.4-0ubuntu3~natty1
> Candidate: 3.0.4-0ubuntu3~natty1
> Version table:
> *** 3.0.4-0ubuntu3~natty1 0
> 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu/ natty/main
> amd64 Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 2.32.1-0ubuntu3.2 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-security/main amd64
> Packages
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main amd64
> Packages
> 2.32.1-0ubuntu3 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
>
> PPAs installed are:
> 1) TOR
> 2) Medibuntu
> 3) Google Earth
> 4) gnome3-team/gnome3
> 5) ubuntugnometeam/ppa-gen
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Team UGR,
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>
> Title:
> GDM won't start, no adwaita, after GDM update
>
> Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> After updating the gdm, I rebooted the machine. After loading the
> kernel, I just ended up with a black screen.
>
> Rebooted using the recovery kernel to check for problems. No package
> problems found. Unable to start failsafeX. Rebooted back to standard
> kernel, repeat black screen when I should get GDM presented to me.
>
> Used Ctrl-Alt-1. Used startx from home-directory, got gnome shell
> started, but no Adwaita theme. Seems to have quite alot of themes
> missing from tweak-gnome-settings.
>
> Wallpaper is not the usual blue with vertical-panelling but a flat
> light blue wallpaper. Black panel at the top works fine. Dock works
> fine. window title-bars seem a low-resolution gtk2 variety.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ugr-meta/+bug/801464/+subscriptions
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[lmsurprenant (lmsurprenant-gmail)]

Since I had to look it up, here are the instructions on how to downgrade your version of gdm until this issue is fixed:

sudo aptitude install gdm=2.32.1-0ubuntu3.2

Or you can specify a different version.
I found the possible versions by installing apt-show-versions and then using

apt-show-versions -a -p gdm

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

Has this been fixed yet?

[Russian Watcher (russianwatcher)]

Nope, still not fixed yet.

[Russian Watcher (russianwatcher)]

Is there any progress being made on this bug ? Where should I look for updates ?

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

@russianwatcher, @Davide: Can you confirm that this issue still exists with the latest updates? You can use the 'recovery console' session option to do updates if you cannot get into GNOME. I still have not been able to replicate this issue.

Be aware that if you have any shell extensions installed and the GNOME shell is updated, crashes WILL occur. Shell extensions will only work with the shell version that they were compiled on; they will almost always crash the shell if a different version is used.
To remove any shell extensions, run the following command in the 'recovery console' session:
rm -r .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/*

Everyone affected by this issue, please run the updates and commands specified above (even if you do not think you have extensions installed) and report the results.

[Russian Watcher (russianwatcher)]

Still not working. Been getting this blank screen instead of GDM since I first reported the bug. Here is my X log and xorg.conf file:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "Layout0"
    Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
# commented out by update-manager, HAL is now used and auto-detects devices
# Keyboard settings are now read from /etc/default/console-setup
# InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# commented out by update-manager, HAL is now used and auto-detects devices
# Keyboard settings are now read from /etc/default/console-setup
# InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

# commented out by update-manager, HAL is now used and auto-detects devices
# Keyboard settings are now read from /etc/default/console-setup
#Section "InputDevice"
#
# # generated from default
# Identifier "Mouse0"
# Driver "mouse"
# Option "Protocol" "auto"
# Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
# Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
# Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
#EndSection

# commented out by update-manager, HAL is now used and auto-detects devices
# Keyboard settings are now read from /etc/default/console-setup
#Section "InputDevice"
#
# # generated from default
# Identifier "Keyboard0"
# Driver "kbd"
#EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    ModelName "Unknown"
    HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
    Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device0"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option "RandRRotation" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Device0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth 24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

X.Org X Server 1.10.1
Release Date: 2011-04-15
[ 143.460] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 143.460] Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-29-server x86_64 Ubuntu
[ 143.461] Current Operating System: Linux desktop 2.6.38-10-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 28 15:07:17 UTC 2011 x86_64
[ 143.462] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.38-10-generic root=UUID=6532a083-3fd3-445b-a4a9-27afaaa5db4c ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
[ 143.462] Build Date: 21 May 2011 11:48:41AM
[ 143.463] xorg-server 2:1.10.1-1ubuntu1.1 (For technical support please see http://www.ubuntu.com/support)
[ 143.463] Current version of pixman: 0.20.2
[ 143.464] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 143.464] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 143.466] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Aug 19 22:05:48 2011
[ 143.466] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
[ 143.467] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 143.468] (==) ServerLayout "Layout0"
[ 143.468] (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
[ ...

[Russian Watcher (russianwatcher)]

Guys, please help. I loved Gnome 3. Haven't been able to use the full version for over 2 months now.

Thanks.

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you try updating everything?

[Chris Gummin (proxy-qtz-deactivatedaccount)]

Try logging in with a recovery console, then running 'sudo apt-get update'. That might fix it!

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