Bug#747292: gdm3: Unable to login after last upgrade (version 3.8.4-7): fails to start a GNOME session

Benjamin Menant benjamin.menant+debian at gmail.com
Wed May 7 08:54:14 UTC 2014


Package: gdm3
Version: 3.8.4-6
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

I upgraded gdm3 package (and its dependencies) version 3.8.4-6 to 3.8.4-7.


   * What was the outcome of this action?

Then, the tomorrow, when I startup the computer, I was unable to login:
- [ok] I got the login screen
- [ok] I selected my user name
- [ok] I typed my password
- [ok] I submited (clicking on the connect button, or pressing return)
- [ko] gdm3 tried to start a Gnome session, but the screen went black and I got
the login screen back again, with my user name selected and this message:
authentication failed…
- [ko] I tried to type my password again, but I was unable to submit  it (a
loading indicator ran and never stoped)
- [ko] then, gdm3 did not respond any more
- [ko] I tried to restart the computer


 Finally, I downgraded gdm3 to 3.8.4-6 from a Virtual Console (and everything
got fine).


/var/log/auth.log
--------------------
[…]
May  6 12:39:01 ****** CRON[13876]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for
user root by (uid=0)
May  6 12:39:01 ****** CRON[13876]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for
user root
May  6 13:05:52 ****** su[13951]: Successful su for ******** by root
May  6 13:05:52 ****** su[13951]: + ??? root:********
May  6 13:05:52 ****** su[13951]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user
******** by (uid=0)
May  6 13:05:52 ****** su[13951]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user
********
May  6 13:05:52 ****** su[13982]: Successful su for ******** by root
May  6 13:05:52 ****** su[13982]: + ??? root:********
May  6 13:05:52 ****** su[13982]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user
******** by (uid=0)
May  6 13:05:52 ****** su[13982]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user
********
May  6 13:05:53 ****** dbus[1778]: [system] Rejected send message, 3 matched
rules; type="method_return", sender=":1.53" (uid=1000 pid=3473 comm="/usr/bin
/gnome-shell ") interface="(unset)" member="(unset)" error name="(unset)"
requested_reply="0" destination=":1.1" (uid=0 pid=1857
comm="/usr/sbin/bluetoothd ")
May  6 13:05:56 ****** gnome-keyring-daemon[3327]:
g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying
GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
May  6 13:06:40 ****** dbus[1793]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched
rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.6" (uid=0 pid=2293 comm="/usr/sbin/gdm3
") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.7" (uid=0 pid=2337
comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/g")
May  6 13:06:46 ****** gdm-launch-environment][2772]: pam_unix(gdm-launch-
environment:session): session opened for user Debian-gdm by (uid=0)
May  6 13:06:46 ****** gdm-launch-environment][2772]: pam_ck_connector(gdm-
launch-environment:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0
May  6 13:06:56 ****** polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication
Agent for unix-session:1 (system bus name :1.27 [gnome-shell --mode=gdm],
object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale
fr_FR.UTF-8)
May  6 13:07:07 ****** gdm3][3298]: pam_unix(gdm3:session): session opened for
user ******** by (uid=0)
May  6 13:07:07 ****** gdm3][3298]: pam_systemd(gdm3:session): Failed to create
session: No such file or directory
May  6 13:07:07 ****** gdm3][3298]: pam_ck_connector(gdm3:session): nox11 mode,
ignoring PAM_TTY :0
May  6 13:07:08 ****** gdm-launch-environment][2772]: pam_unix(gdm-launch-
environment:session): session closed for user Debian-gdm
May  6 13:07:08 ****** polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered Authentication
Agent for unix-session:1 (system bus name :1.27, object path
/org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale fr_FR.UTF-8)
(disconnected from bus)
May  6 13:07:13 ****** dbus[1793]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched
rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.53" (uid=1000 pid=3443 comm="/usr/bin
/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll"
error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.10" (uid=0 pid=2783
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
May  6 13:07:51 ****** pkexec[3710]: ********: Error executing command as
another user: Not authorized [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/********]
[COMMAND=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-brightness
12]
May  6 13:07:51 ****** pkexec[3714]: ********: Error executing command as
another user: Not authorized [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/********]
[COMMAND=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-brightness
12]
May  6 13:09:01 ****** CRON[3750]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for
user root by (uid=0)
May  6 13:09:02 ****** CRON[3750]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for
user root
May  6 13:09:35 ****** su[3789]: Successful su for ******** by root
May  6 13:09:35 ****** su[3789]: + ??? root:********
May  6 13:09:35 ****** su[3789]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user
******** by (uid=0)
May  6 13:09:36 ****** su[3789]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user
********
May  6 13:09:36 ****** su[3819]: Successful su for ******** by root
May  6 13:09:36 ****** su[3819]: + ??? root:********
May  6 13:09:36 ****** su[3819]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user
******** by (uid=0)
May  6 13:09:36 ****** su[3819]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user
********
May  6 13:09:39 ****** gnome-keyring-daemon[3303]:
g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying
GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
May  6 13:10:20 ****** dbus[1800]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched
rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.6" (uid=0 pid=1933 comm="/usr/sbin/gdm3
") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.7" (uid=0 pid=1978
comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/g")
May  6 13:10:26 ****** gdm-launch-environment][2453]: pam_unix(gdm-launch-
environment:session): session opened for user Debian-gdm by (uid=0)
May  6 13:10:26 ****** gdm-launch-environment][2453]: pam_ck_connector(gdm-
launch-environment:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0
May  6 13:10:37 ****** polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication
Agent for unix-session:1 (system bus name :1.27 [gnome-shell --mode=gdm],
object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale
fr_FR.UTF-8)
May  6 13:10:38 ****** pkexec[3298]: Debian-gdm: The value for the SHELL
variable was not found the /etc/shells file [USER=root] [TTY=unknown]
[CWD=/var/lib/gdm3] [COMMAND=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-
helper --set-brightness 16]
May  6 13:10:38 ****** pkexec[3301]: Debian-gdm: The value for the SHELL
variable was not found the /etc/shells file [USER=root] [TTY=unknown]
[CWD=/var/lib/gdm3] [COMMAND=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-
helper --set-brightness 17]
May  6 13:10:39 ****** pkexec[3304]: Debian-gdm: The value for the SHELL
variable was not found the /etc/shells file [USER=root] [TTY=unknown]
[CWD=/var/lib/gdm3] [COMMAND=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-
helper --set-brightness 18]
May  6 13:10:56 ****** gdm3][3305]: pam_unix(gdm3:session): session opened for
user ******** by (uid=0)
May  6 13:10:56 ****** gdm3][3305]: pam_systemd(gdm3:session): Failed to create
session: No such file or directory
May  6 13:10:56 ****** gdm3][3305]: pam_ck_connector(gdm3:session): nox11 mode,
ignoring PAM_TTY :0
May  6 13:10:56 ****** gdm-launch-environment][2453]: pam_unix(gdm-launch-
environment:session): session closed for user Debian-gdm
May  6 13:10:56 ****** polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered Authentication
Agent for unix-session:1 (system bus name :1.27, object path
/org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale fr_FR.UTF-8)
(disconnected from bus)
May  6 13:11:01 ****** dbus[1800]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched
rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.53" (uid=1000 pid=3451 comm="/usr/bin
/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll"
error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.10" (uid=0 pid=2459
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
May  6 13:11:48 ****** login[2904]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for
user ******** by LOGIN(uid=0)
[…]


/var/log/gdm3/:0-greeter.log.4
-----------------------------------
gnome-session[2597]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file orca-
autostart.desktop or it references a not found TryExec binary

(gnome-settings-daemon:2980): power-plugin-WARNING **: in an undefined state we
are not charging or discharging and the batteries are also not charged

(gnome-settings-daemon:2980): power-plugin-WARNING **: in an undefined state we
are not charging or discharging and the batteries are also not charged

(gnome-settings-daemon:2980): power-plugin-WARNING **: in an undefined state we
are not charging or discharging and the batteries are also not charged

(gnome-settings-daemon:2980): power-plugin-WARNING **: in an undefined state we
are not charging or discharging and the batteries are also not charged

(gnome-settings-daemon:2980): keyboard-plugin-WARNING **: Couldn't upload new
XKB keyboard description
Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Log level 16: Attempt to add
property Gjs_MonitorConstraint::primary after class was initialised
Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Log level 16: Attempt to add
property Gjs_MonitorConstraint::index after class was initialised
      JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Tue May 06 2014 13:10:37 GMT+0200 (CEST)
Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : CurrentTime used to choose focus
window; focus window may not be correct.
Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Got a request to focus the
no_focus_window with a timestamp of 0.  This shouldn't happen!
The value for the SHELL variable was not found the /etc/shells file

This incident has been reported.
The value for the SHELL variable was not found the /etc/shells file

This incident has been reported.
The value for the SHELL variable was not found the /etc/shells file

This incident has been reported.
Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Log level 8: Source ID 202 was
not found when attempting to remove it

(gnome-settings-daemon:2980): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Error releasing name
org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: La connexion est fermée
g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying
GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.

(gnome-settings-daemon:2980): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 43 was not found when
attempting to remove it

/var/log/gdm3/:0-slave.log.3
--------------------------------
gdm-simple-slave[2281]: Failed to give slave programs access to the display.
Trying to proceed.
gdm-launch-environment][2478]: pam_unix(gdm-launch-environment:session):
session opened for user Debian-gdm by (uid=0)
gdm-launch-environment][2478]: pam_ck_connector(gdm-launch-
environment:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0
gdm3][4087]: pam_unix(gdm3:auth): conversation failed
gdm3][4087]: pam_unix(gdm3:auth): auth could not identify password for
[bmenant]
gdm3][4091]: pam_unix(gdm3:session): session opened for user bmenant by (uid=0)
gdm3][4091]: pam_systemd(gdm3:session): Failed to create session: No such file
or directory
gdm3][4091]: pam_ck_connector(gdm3:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0
gdm3][4091]: GLib: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed
gdm3][4091]: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GeneralError:
Unable to find session for cookie
gdm-simple-slave[2281]: GdmSlave: Failed to determine whether seat is multi-
session capable: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
gdm-launch-environment][2478]: pam_unix(gdm-launch-environment:session):
session closed for user Debian-gdm
gdm-launch-environment][2478]: GLib: Source ID 70 was not found when attempting
to remove it
gdm-simple-slave[2281]: Failed to remove slave program access to the display.
Trying to proceed.
gdm-simple-slave[2281]: Child process -2862 was already dead.
g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying
GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
gdm-simple-slave[2281]: GLib-GObject: g_object_ref: assertion
'object->ref_count > 0' failed
gdm-simple-slave[2281]: Child process 4091 was already dead.
gdm-simple-slave[2281]: Unable to kill session worker process
gdm-simple-slave[2281]: GLib: Source ID 4 was not found when attempting to
remove it
gdm-simple-slave[2281]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: assertion
'object->ref_count > 0' failed


/var/syslog.1
--------------
[…]
May  6 13:03:23 Larbin-02 kernel: [12062.955136] applesmc: send_byte(0x31,
0x0300) fail: 0x00
May  6 13:03:23 Larbin-02 kernel: [12062.955147] applesmc: ALV1: read arg fail
May  6 13:04:58 Larbin-02 kernel: [12157.215956] vgaarb: this pci device is not
a vga device
May  6 13:05:22 Larbin-02 kernel: [12182.037922] vgaarb: this pci device is not
a vga device
May  6 13:05:26 Larbin-02 kernel: [12185.851167] vgaarb: this pci device is not
a vga device
May  6 13:05:51 Larbin-02 dbus[1778]: [system] Activating service
name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' (using servicehelper)
May  6 13:05:51 Larbin-02 dbus[1778]: [system] Successfully activated service
'org.freedesktop.systemd1'
May  6 13:05:51 Larbin-02 shutdown[13936]: shutting down for system halt
May  6 13:05:51 Larbin-02 init: Switching to runlevel: 0
May  6 13:05:52 Larbin-02 console-kit-daemon[2471]: GLib-CRITICAL: Source ID 25
was not found when attempting to remove it
May  6 13:05:52 Larbin-02 console-kit-daemon[2471]: GLib-CRITICAL: Source ID 34
was not found when attempting to remove it
May  6 13:05:53 Larbin-02 pommed[2216]: Exiting
May  6 13:05:53 Larbin-02 NetworkManager[1916]: <info> caught signal 15,
shutting down normally.
May  6 13:05:53 Larbin-02 NetworkManager[1916]: <info> (wlan0): device state
change: unavailable -> unmanaged (reason 'removed') [20 10 36]
May  6 13:05:53 Larbin-02 NetworkManager[1916]: <info> exiting (success)
May  6 13:05:53 Larbin-02 bluetoothd[1857]: Terminating
May  6 13:05:53 Larbin-02 bluetoothd[1857]: Stopping SDP server
May  6 13:05:53 Larbin-02 bluetoothd[1857]: Exit
May  6 13:05:54 Larbin-02 avahi-daemon[1835]: Got SIGTERM, quitting.
May  6 13:05:54 Larbin-02 avahi-daemon[1835]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on
interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::21f:5bff:fef1:aa17.
May  6 13:05:54 Larbin-02 avahi-daemon[1835]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on
interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.111.
May  6 13:05:54 Larbin-02 avahi-daemon[1835]: avahi-daemon 0.6.31 exiting.
May  6 13:05:56 Larbin-02 ntpd[1796]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
May  6 13:05:56 Larbin-02 ModemManager[3605]: <info>  Caught signal, shutting
down...
May  6 13:05:56 Larbin-02 pulseaudio: pulsecore/log.cError writing logs to the
journal. Redirect log messages to syslog.
May  6 13:05:56 Larbin-02 pulseaudio[3410]: [pulseaudio] module-x11-publish.c:
PulseAudio information vanished from X11!
May  6 13:05:56 Larbin-02 ModemManager[3605]: <info>  ModemManager is shut down
May  6 13:05:56 Larbin-02 x-session-manager[3329]: Gdk-WARNING: The application
'x-session-manager' lost its connection to the display :0;#012most likely the X
server was shut down or you killed/destroyed#012the application.#012
May  6 13:05:56 Larbin-02 gdm-simple-slave[2325]: GLib-GObject: g_object_ref:
assertion 'object->ref_count > 0' failed
May  6 13:05:56 Larbin-02 acpid: exiting
May  6 13:05:56 Larbin-02 gdm-simple-slave[2325]: Child process 3322 was
already dead.
May  6 13:05:56 Larbin-02 gdm-simple-slave[2325]: Unable to kill session worker
process
May  6 13:05:56 Larbin-02 gdm-simple-slave[2325]: GLib: Source ID 4 was not
found when attempting to remove it
May  6 13:05:56 Larbin-02 gdm-simple-slave[2325]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref:
assertion 'object->ref_count > 0' failed
May  6 13:05:59 Larbin-02 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd"
swVersion="7.6.3" x-pid="1574" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] exiting on
signal 15.
[…]



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                    0.6.37-1
ii  adduser                            3.113+nmu3
ii  dconf-cli                          0.20.0-2
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend            0.20.0-2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]              1.5.53
ii  gir1.2-gdm3                        3.8.4-6
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]  3.8.4-4
ii  gnome-session-bin                  3.8.4-4
ii  gnome-settings-daemon              3.8.5-2
ii  gnome-shell                        3.8.4-8+b1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas          3.8.2-2
ii  libaccountsservice0                0.6.37-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                        2.12.0-1
ii  libaudit1                          1:2.3.6-1
ii  libc6                              2.18-5
ii  libcairo-gobject2                  1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                          1.12.16-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                 0.30-2
ii  libcanberra0                       0.30-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                 2.30.7-1
ii  libgdm1                            3.8.4-6
ii  libglib2.0-0                       2.40.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-bin                     2.40.0-3
ii  libgtk-3-0                         3.12.1-1
ii  libpam-modules                     1.1.8-3
ii  libpam-runtime                     1.1.8-3
ii  libpam-systemd                     204-10
ii  libpam0g                           1.1.8-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0                     1.36.3-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                1.36.3-1
ii  librsvg2-common                    2.40.2-1
ii  libselinux1                        2.2.2-2
ii  libwrap0                           7.6.q-25
ii  libx11-6                           2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxau6                            1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxdmcp6                          1:1.1.1-1
ii  libxrandr2                         2:1.4.2-1
ii  lsb-base                           4.1+Debian12
ii  terminator [x-terminal-emulator]   0.97-2
ii  upower                             0.9.23-2+b2
ii  x11-common                         1:7.7+7
ii  x11-xserver-utils                  7.7+2

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core               2.10.2-3
ii  desktop-base               7.0.3
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  x11-xkb-utils              7.7+1
ii  xserver-xephyr             2:1.15.1-1
ii  xserver-xorg               1:7.7+7
ii  zenity                     3.8.0-1

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
pn  gnome-orca            <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.12.0-2

-- debconf information:
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3



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