system does not boot after full-upgrade on kinetic

[Athos Ribeiro]

Hi,

After a full upgrade on a kinetic system, the system no longer boots normally.

When I power the computer on, I get a prompt to decrypt my disk. I insert the password, and am redirected to a screen saying a fschk is running. It spend hours in that screen with apparently no activity. Pressing ctrl+C does not help at that point.

Booting through recovery mode and then requesting to proceed to boot works fine. A regular fschk also suceeds.

Here is what I could extract from my journal:

Sep 05 16:10:57 castor gnome-session[2000]: gnome-session-binary[2000]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Sep 05 16:10:57 castor gnome-session-binary[2000]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Sep 05 16:10:57 castor gnome-session-binary[2000]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop
Sep 05 16:10:57 castor /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[1986]: dbus-daemon[1986]: [session uid=127 pid=1986] Activating service name='ca.desrt.dconf' requested by ':1.2' (uid=127 pid=2000 comm="/usr/libexec/gnome-session-binary --autostart /usr" label="unconfined")
Sep 05 16:10:57 castor /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[1986]: dbus-daemon[1986]: [session uid=127 pid=1986] Successfully activated service 'ca.desrt.dconf'
Sep 05 16:10:57 castor dbus-daemon[1221]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service' requested by ':1.54' (uid=127 pid=3239 comm="/usr/libexec/gsd-rfkill" label="unconfined")
Sep 05 16:10:57 castor /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[1986]: dbus-daemon[1986]: [session uid=127 pid=1986] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.7' (uid=127 pid=3227 comm="/usr/libexec/gsd-sharing" label="unconfined")
Sep 05 16:10:57 castor /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[1986]: dbus-daemon[1986]: [session uid=127 pid=1986] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Sep 05 16:10:57 castor gsd-sharing[3227]: Failed to StopUnit service: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Sep 05 16:10:57 castor gsd-sharing[3227]: Failed to StopUnit service: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Sep 05 16:10:57 castor systemd[1]: Starting Hostname Service...
Sep 05 16:10:57 castor dbus-daemon[1221]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.hostname1'
Sep 05 16:10:57 castor systemd[1]: Started Hostname Service.
Sep 05 16:10:57 castor kernel: rfkill: input handler disabled
Sep 05 16:11:27 castor systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Deactivated successfully.
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session-binary[2000]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session[2000]: gnome-session-binary[2000]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session[2000]: gnome-session-binary[2000]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session[2000]: gnome-session-binary[2000]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Keyboard.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session[2000]: gnome-session-binary[2000]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session[2000]: gnome-session-binary[2000]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Wacom.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session-binary[2000]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power.desktop
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session-binary[2000]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session-binary[2000]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys.desktop
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session-binary[2000]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Keyboard.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session-binary[2000]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Keyboard.desktop
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session-binary[2000]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session-binary[2000]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color.desktop
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session-binary[2000]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Wacom.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session-binary[2000]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Wacom.desktop
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor spice-vdagent[3321]: vdagent virtio channel /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 does not exist, exiting
Sep 05 16:12:27 castor gnome-session-binary[2000]: Entering running state

And this is what I see in /var/log/syslog around that time:

Sep 5 16:09:26 castor gnome-session[2000]: gnome-session-binary[2000]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
Sep 5 16:09:26 castor gnome-session[2000]: gnome-session-binary[2000]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
Sep 5 16:09:26 castor gnome-session-binary[2000]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
Sep 5 16:09:26 castor gnome-session-binary[2000]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed

[Athos Ribeiro (athos-ribeiro)]

I am attaching the boot logs with gdm and gnome-session debug modes on. I hope this helps.

I am also targeting the bug to gdm3, since replacing it with lightdm does fix the issue for me.

Finally, I tried reproducing the issue by performing a clean jammy installation and upgrading to kinetic. I could not reproduce the issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mitsuya Shibata (cosmos-door)]

How to reproduce:

* Startup 22.10 beta ISO image
* Enable "Install third-party software for graphics and Wi-Fi hardware and additional media format" on "Update and Software" step.
* Complete installs and reboot
* No startup GDM session

More simple step:

* Install gstreamer1.0-vaapi package on 22.10 and reboot

How to recovery:

* Select "recovery mode" on GRUB menu
* Exec "apt remove gstreamer1.0-vaapi"
* Exit recovery mode and reboot system

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I think comment #5 is describing bug 1988488.