Bug#724496: gnome-shell: greeter: crash at startup before login because $XDG_SESSION_ID is NULL
Alban Crequy
alban.crequy at collabora.co.uk
Tue Sep 24 11:06:11 UTC 2013
Package: gnome-shell
Version: 3.8.4-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
After upgrading from gnome 3.4 to the last version in experimental, the GDM
greeter crashes at startup and the screen remains black; I only see the mouse
pointer so I am unable to login.
/var/log/gdm3/:0-greeter.log.1 contains a JS exception in
getCurrentSessionProxy() from loginManager.js:
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gnome-session[3721]: WARNING: Failed isActive call to ConsoleKit: Method "IsActive" with signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager" doesn't exist
openConnection: connect: No such file or directory
cannot connect to brltty at :0
JS ERROR: !!! Exception in callback for signal: sessions-loaded
JS ERROR: !!! message = '"Argument 'string' (type utf8) may not be null"'
JS ERROR: !!! fileName = '"/usr/share/gjs-1.0/overrides/GLib.js"'
JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '105'
JS ERROR: !!! stack = '"_pack_variant([object Array],null)@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/overrides/GLib.js:105
_pack_variant([object Array],[object Array])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/overrides/GLib.js:152
("(s)",[object Array])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/overrides/GLib.js:262
_proxyInvoker("GetSession",false,[object Array],[object Array])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/overrides/Gio.js:79
(null,function () {[native code]})@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/overrides/Gio.js:125
(function () {[native code]})@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/misc/loginManager.js:155
wrapper(function () {[native code]})@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:213
()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/screenShield.js:517
wrapper()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:213
()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:154
()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:248
_initializeUI()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:163
_sessionsLoaded([object Object])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:109
_emit("sessions-loaded")@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/signals.js:124
([object Object])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/sessionMode.js:172
done()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/misc/fileUtils.js:33
([object Array])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/misc/fileUtils.js:51
onNextFileComplete([object GObject_Object],[object GObject_Object])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/misc/fileUtils.js:21
"'
(gnome-shell:3911): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Type of return value is incorrect: expected `(b)', got `()''
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I added some debugs in /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/misc/loginManager.js so I can
see that GLib.getenv('XDG_SESSION_ID') is NULL, hence the exception in
loginManager.js in getCurrentSessionProxy().
It got fixed by installing 1 package: libpam-systemd, which was not installed.
I suspect that a dependency to libpam-systemd was missing because it works fine
now.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gnome-shell depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.16.1-1
ii evolution-data-server 3.8.5-2
ii gdm3 3.8.4-1
ii gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 0.6.34-2
ii gir1.2-caribou-1.0 0.4.12-1
ii gir1.2-clutter-1.0 1.14.4-3
ii gir1.2-freedesktop 1.36.0-2+b1
ii gir1.2-gcr-3 3.8.2-4
ii gir1.2-gkbd-3.0 3.6.0-1
ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.36.0-2+b1
ii gir1.2-gmenu-3.0 3.8.0-2
ii gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 3.8.1-2
ii gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 3.8.4-1
ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.8.4-1
ii gir1.2-ibus-1.0 1.5.3-7
ii gir1.2-mutter-3.0 3.8.3-1
ii gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0 0.9.8.0-5
ii gir1.2-nmgtk-1.0 0.9.8.4-1
ii gir1.2-pango-1.0 1.32.5-5+b1
ii gir1.2-polkit-1.0 0.105-3
ii gir1.2-soup-2.4 2.42.2-6
ii gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12 0.20.4-1
ii gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2 0.8.0-2
ii gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 0.9.21-3
ii gjs 1.36.1-2
ii gnome-bluetooth 3.8.1-2
ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.8.2.2-2
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.5-1
ii gnome-shell-common 3.8.4-1
ii gnome-themes-standard 3.8.4-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.8.0-1
ii libatk-bridge2.0-0 2.9.5-2
ii libatk1.0-0 2.8.0-2
ii libc6 2.17-93
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.16-2
ii libcairo2 1.12.16-2
ii libcamel-1.2-43 3.8.5-2
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-2
ii libcanberra0 0.30-2
ii libclutter-1.0-0 1.14.4-3
ii libcogl-pango12 1.14.0-3
ii libcogl12 1.14.0-3
ii libcroco3 0.6.8-2
ii libdbus-1-3 1.7.2-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100.2-1
ii libecal-1.2-15 3.8.5-2
ii libedataserver-1.2-17 3.8.5-2
ii libegl1-mesa [libegl1-x11] 9.1.6-2+b1
ii libgck-1-0 3.8.2-4
ii libgcr-base-3-1 3.8.2-4
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.28.2-1
ii libgirepository-1.0-1 1.36.0-2+b1
ii libgjs0c [libgjs0-libmozjs185-1.0] 1.36.1-2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.36.4-1
ii libgnome-menu-3-0 3.8.0-2
ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.0.10-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.8.4-1
ii libical0 0.48-2
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 0.16.0-1
ii libmozjs185-1.0 1.8.5-1.0.0+dfsg-4+b1
ii libmutter0b 3.8.3-1
ii libnm-glib4 0.9.8.0-5
ii libnm-gtk0 0.9.8.4-1
ii libnm-util2 0.9.8.0-5
ii libnspr4 2:4.10-1
ii libnspr4-0d 2:4.10-1
ii libnss3 2:3.15.1-1
ii libnss3-1d 2:3.15.1-1
ii libp11-kit0 0.18.5-3
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.32.5-5+b1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.32.5-5+b1
ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.105-3
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-3
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 4.0-6+b1
ii libpulse0 4.0-6+b1
ii libsecret-1-0 0.15-2
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.42.2-6
ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.0.2-1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-3
ii libtelepathy-glib0 0.20.4-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.1-1
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-1
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.2-1
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.1-1
ii libxi6 2:1.7.2-1
ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-3
ii libxrandr2 2:1.4.1-1
ii python 2.7.5-5
ii telepathy-mission-control-5 1:5.15.1-1
Versions of packages gnome-shell recommends:
ii gkbd-capplet 3.6.0-1
ii gnome-contacts 3.8.3-1
ii gnome-control-center 1:3.8.3-2
ii gnome-user-guide 3.8.2-1
ii unzip 6.0-9
gnome-shell suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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