Comment 61 for bug 1951491

Akkana, what login manager are you using with openbox?

On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 at 14:57, Tim Richardson <email address hidden> wrote:

> The problem was identified as the session not being established correctly
> in some instances, and those instances were 100% involved in non-mainstream
> session starts (nomachine or other remote session starts such as X2Go).
> The fixes apart from disabling cgroups v2 involve simulating one aspect of
> a successful login.
>
> It seems that the login process of these sessions skips something that
> systemd now requires. X2Go for instance is old and it is not surprising
> perhaps. I think the problem is happening at login not when the gui shell
> is started.
> I don't know openbox, but if you consistently get this problem, may be
> that is the reason. So the common element is not remote desktop as such,
> but old and non-compliant login process (I hypothesize). I hope you report
> this back to openbox and they have people interesting in investigating it.
> Nomachine is a blackbox (non open source) and I don't think X2Go has
> development effort.
>
> Obviously a standard gnome, plasma or xfce session does not get the
> problem, because if Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu users couldn't use the
> default browser, we would know about it. All the complaining about slow
> start times would be nothing to the browser not actually starting.
>
> There are some reports here of people using gnome and encountering the
> problem. I can not explain that, except that there may be another root
> cause, or those systems may be strangely misconfigured. Also, it is not a
> snap bug and if snap needs to run in a v2 cgroup and the session can't
> enable this, what do you propose that snapd do about it?
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 at 08:20, Akkana Peck <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> Tim, I'm not sure where you got that impression about remote desktops
>> (re #55), but I'm the original reporter and I reported the problem on a
>> local openbox session (see comment #6). My impression was that most of
>> the people chiming in were similar to me, running local sessions with
>> various window managers other than gnome or kde.
>>
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>> Can't run snaps: .slice/session-1.scope is not a snap cgroup
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