After dist-upgrade to 13.10, gnome-session starts with just a black screen w/ mouse cursor
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-session (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Normally, I would expect to be launched into the (classic) gnome desktop. I can temporarily work around the issue by using xfce4-session instead.
Starting "gnome-session --session=
$ gnome-session --session=
gnome-
gnome-
gnome-
gnome-
** (process:6197): WARNING **: software acceleration check failed: Child process exited with code 1
** (gnome-
Perhaps relatedly, since upgrade to 13.10 some gnome apps have started having errors, too.
$ evince
(evince:7046): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
No protocol specified
** (evince:7046): WARNING **: Could not open X display
No protocol specified
Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display:
After running "sudo xhost +" the error changes to:
(evince:7507): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
(evince:7507): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used resources file at `/home/
(evince:7507): EvinceDocument-
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Eye of Gnome (eog) simply segfaults, too.
Some system information:
Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10
uname: Linux to127 3.11.0-13-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 23 07:38:26 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The system is running under VMWare and is connected to via NX/SSH (which should not have any effect, I think).
All software packages should be at their latest versions. gnome session version is 3.9.90-0ubuntu3.
The information I have provided is probably very vague. Is there anything else I could do to clarify things?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-session 3.9.90-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 28 10:18:40 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-06-27 (518 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120424.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: gnome-session
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-11-21 (6 days ago)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.