GDM login fails with regular gnome-session (lucid, i386)

[zvaral]

Binary package hint: gdm

After installing lucid alpha2 and updating the packages (Feb 22, 2010) regular gnome-session can not be obtained from gdm. After clicking the login name and typing the password, gdm returns to the original login screen without starting the default gnome-session. Failsafe gnome-session however will work if I select this option from the select session pop-up menu.

zvaral@teodora:~$ dpkg -l |grep gdm
ii gdm 2.29.6-0ubuntu3 GNOME Display Manager
ii gdm-guest-session 0.14 gdm extension for guest session
zvaral@teodora:~$ dpkg -l |grep gnome-session
ii gnome-session 2.29.6-0ubuntu3 The GNOME Session Manager
ii gnome-session-bin 2.29.6-0ubuntu3 The GNOME Session Manager - Minimal runtime
ii gnome-session-canberra 0.22-1ubuntu2 GNOME session log in and log out sound event

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 23 12:07:10 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
Package: gdm 2.29.6-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686

[Hugh Saunders (hughsaunders)]

For me, this is a symptom of #515846.

[zvaral (z-varallyay)]

I can not see the similarities but probably someone others may confirm this if I attach some more information. I note that after the latest packages (Feb 26, 2010) this issue still exists.

I have an mgag550 card and seemingly no any issue with X. Please, find attached the
/var/log/gdm/:0.log
file and I copy here the
/var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log
which shows some more strange messages:

Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /var/lib/gdm/.config/metacity/sessions/10f7468eb92810ebff126718502788503500000014400006.ms: Failed to open file '/var/lib/gdm/.config/metacity/sessions/10f7468eb92810ebff126718502788503500000014400006.ms': No such file or directory
** (process:1454): DEBUG: Greeter session pid=1454 display=:0.0 xauthority=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-jk9bSG/database
gdm-simple-greeter[1454]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.19.6/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5634: widget not within a GtkWindow
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1400024 (Login Wind)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1400024 (Login Wind)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.

(gnome-settings-daemon:1446): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed

[Hugh Saunders (hughsaunders)]

Maybe previous comment was presumptuous.

I have the similar symptoms: have upgraded to lucid, can login to gnome failsafe, but not gnome normal session.

When watching the X output and the gnome-session output, I see X crash with output similar to that mentioned in bug #515846:

"X: ../common/drirenderbuffer.c:69: driNewRenderbuffer: Assertion `format == 0x1908 || format == 0x8050 || format == 0x8058 || format == 0x81A5 || format == 0x81A6 || format == 0x81A7 || format == 0x8D48' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)"

After that because X has crashed, gdm restarts it and I end up back at the login screen.

It maybe that we are experiencing the same symptoms but for completely different reasons?

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

I suspect Xorg is crashing rather than there being a GDM problem. Please attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old after this happens.

Thanks

[zvaral (z-varallyay)]

/var/log/Xorg.0.log file is attached

[zvaral (z-varallyay)]

And the /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old file

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Is there anything in your /var/log/syslog after you get the issue?

[zvaral (z-varallyay)]

As I can see now, only gdm related warnings or errors are presented in /var/log/syslog such as

Feb 26 12:51:15 teodora gdm-binary[624]: WARNING: Unable to find users: no seat-
id found

Feb 26 12:51:22 teodora gdm-session-worker[1040]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed

Feb 26 12:50:11 teodora gdm-simple-greeter[1266]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.19.6/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5634: widget not within a GtkWindow

Feb 26 12:50:18 teodora gdm-session-worker[1268]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed
Feb 26 12:50:24 teodora acpid: client 1184[0:0] has disconnected
Feb 26 12:50:24 teodora acpid: client connected from 1408[0:0]
Feb 26 12:50:24 teodora acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Feb 26 12:50:24 teodora bonobo-activation-server (zoli-1386): could not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-xwEqOIZDTB: Connection refused

Feb 26 12:50:28 teodora gdm-simple-greeter[1454]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.19.6/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5634: widget not within a GtkWindow
Feb 26 12:50:33 teodora pulseaudio[1271]: ratelimit.c: 1 events suppressed
Feb 26 13:09:28 teodora gdm-session-worker[1455]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed

For the sake of simplicity I attached the whole syslog file too. Probably a more experienced bug hunter will see something more specific too.

But turning back to the earlier mentioned /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log file, I checked and the /var/log/gdm/.config folder is empty. Why does gdm look for a saved session file here?

[Hugh Saunders (hughsaunders)]

I added the xorg-edgers ppa, dist-upgraded and rebooted, this solved the problem, I can now login to a normal gnome session.

[zvaral (z-varallyay)]

Next time I try the xorg-edgers ppa.

Booting with the alpha 3 live cd the default ubuntu user was not able to login too. Failsafe login was applied again.

The end of the /var/log/syslog file is copied here:

Mar 2 12:05:14 ubuntu kernel: [ 447.656761] platform mga_warp.0: firmware: requesting matrox/g400_warp.fw
Mar 2 12:05:16 ubuntu gdm-simple-greeter[3503]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.19.5/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5634: widget not within a GtkWindow
Mar 2 12:17:01 ubuntu CRON[3518]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Mar 2 12:52:34 ubuntu acpid: client 3463[0:0] has disconnected
Mar 2 12:52:34 ubuntu acpid: client connected from 3463[0:0]
Mar 2 12:52:34 ubuntu acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Mar 2 12:55:23 ubuntu gdm-session-worker[3506]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed
Mar 2 12:55:37 ubuntu gdm-session-worker[3506]: pam_sm_authenticate: Called
Mar 2 12:55:37 ubuntu gdm-session-worker[3506]: pam_sm_authenticate: username = [ubuntu]

[zvaral (z-varallyay)]

This issue was resolved by the yesterday updates. Today I launched the computer and I could login to normal gnome-session without any problem.

The related update packages could be
gdm_2.96.6-0ubuntu4_i386.deb
gnome-session_2.29.6-0ubuntu4_all.deb
gnome-session-bin_2.29.6-0ubuntu4_all.deb
gtk2-engines-pixbuf_2.19.6-1ubuntu3_i386.deb

No X-related packages were received yesterday, so, very likely the issue was within any of the above packages.

[Hugh Saunders (hughsaunders)]

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/7.7-4ubuntu1 was released a couple of days ago and also fixed the problem for me, so I don't need the xorg-edgers ppa any more.

[DebianSidUser (raza)]

I'm still having this prob. Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 64bit.

[DebianSidUser (raza)]

I don't think this is a X prob, the Background and mouse load but the actual login window isn't loading. Automatic login wont work either. :/

[Vladimir Hidalgo (vlad88sv)]

I update-manager -d from 9.10 today and I cant login in regualar gnome session. I'm using fail safe too.

I'm using a Nvidia 6200 AGP 8x card, maybe it's a nvidia driver fault?.

[grimko (grimko)]

I don't think this is a GDM related bug, I can't see the gnome session in KDM either.

Only the KDE and XTERM sessions show up in both of the desktop managers.

I upgraded with update-manager -d from 9.10 (ubuntu + kubuntu installed) today too.

[grimko (grimko)]

Solved for me by forcing the installation of gnome-session that was conflicting with another package.

[Jonathan Harker (jonathanharker)]

Confirmed - I also had this problem - correct username/password would return me to the gdm welcome screen. Installing gnome-session as per comment #18 fixed the issue - so this package is for some reason left out of the dist-upgrade.

I upgraded 9.10 to lucid on my HP Mini 5101 (i386) thus:
   sudo sed -i s/karmic/lucid/g /etc/apt/sources.list
   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[Hugh Saunders (hughsaunders)]

@Jonathan Harker, not a good way of upgrading, See http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/beta1 for upgrade instructions.

[AJ (leeezly)]

Uninstalling "xubuntu-gdm-theme" does solve the problem for me. If your running gnome, maybe there is a similar package ... ubuntu-gdm-theme?

I am gonna wait for a fix before reinstalling it again.

Cheers

[Ivan Gualandri (ivang)]

I have the same problem with lucid lynx beta 1/2.

If I stop GDM with "sudo service gdm stop" and then launch x via normal startx everything work fine.

But if i try to login with GDM, after clicking on a user, gdm restart itself.

[Ivan Gualandri (ivang)]

for me reinstall of gnome-session doesn't work.

[David Hayes (evidex)]

I think I also have this bug, or similar, after an apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade from Lucid B1 to B2.

When I get to GDM, everything works perfectly, I can switch to a console, and login as normal. But if I click on a username in GDM to login, it freezes for a second or two, the screen turns black, and it appears as if GDM has restarted itself.

Everything works as it should from a failsafe X session, which is where I attach these from. If I should attach anything else, let me know please.

My graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce4 MX440 [AGP] using the Nvidia-96 driver.

Attached
/var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log.1
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old

[David Hayes (evidex)]

Also attaching .xsession-errors if that's any help.

[David Hayes (evidex)]

Apologies, it turns out that the bug I suffer from is #553200. My apologies for dumping my stuff here in error. :)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing since the bug submitter said the issue was fixed in an update, if somebody still get a bug open a new report using ubuntu-bug

[Anibal Avelar (aavelar)]

I had a similar problem, I always got this messages after some time:

Jul 26 12:50:11 server1 gdm-simple-greeter[1266]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.19.6/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5634: widget not within a GtkWindow

Jul 26 12:50:18 server1 gdm-session-worker[1268]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed

But I didn't have another idea about was happen. The error ocurred overall using Firefox or Thunderbird, my session always close

But works for me this option in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Module"
          ....
         #Load "record"
         Disable "record"
         ....
EndSection

I need to "explicit" disable this module. Then the problem disappear for ever :P

I know the module is loaded by default then if you don't have the option doesn't mean the module is not used, you need disable explicitly.

Regards.