Bug#747210: gdm3: fails to restart X server after first logout, screen blank

Thu May 15 11:35:21 UTC 2014

On 2014-05-15 13:18:21 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2014-05-14 22:21:06 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > Could you please add "debug=yes" next to the call to pam_systemd and try
> > again with the newer version. Then could you add the following line
> > in /etc/init.d/gdm3 just before the call to "start-stop-daemon --start".
> > 
> > dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName string:org.freedesktop.login1 uint32:0
> 
> If I do these things, this makes the bug disappear.

With just the "debug=yes", the bug appears immediately after reboot.

After a first reboot, gdm3 didn't appear at all. I just got tty1 to
tty6. The corresponding part of the auth.log file:

May 15 13:22:31 ypig sshd[2828]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
May 15 13:22:31 ypig sshd[2828]: Server listening on :: port 22.
May 15 13:22:33 ypig sshd[2865]: Accepted publickey for vlefevre from 140.77.51.8 port 44439 ssh2: RSA 2b:40:59:c7:25:8a:b6:16:06:c1:c8:b2:04:fc:1a:b8
May 15 13:22:33 ypig sshd[2865]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user vlefevre by (uid=0)
May 15 13:22:33 ypig sshd[2865]: pam_systemd(sshd:session): Asking logind to create session: uid=1000 pid=2865 service=sshd type=tty class=user seat= vtnr=0 tty= display= remote=yes remote_user= remote_host=sabre-04-domu-ssh.ens-lyon.fr
May 15 13:22:33 ypig sshd[2865]: pam_systemd(sshd:session): Reply from logind: id=1 object_path=/org/freedesktop/login1/session/_31 runtime_path=/run/user/1000 session_fd=7 seat= vtnr=0
May 15 13:22:34 ypig dbus[1973]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.6" (uid=0 pid=2550 comm="/usr/sbin/gdm3 ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.11" (uid=0 pid=2952 comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/g")
May 15 13:22:35 ypig dbus[1973]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.6" (uid=0 pid=2550 comm="/usr/sbin/gdm3 ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.13" (uid=0 pid=3033 comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/g")
May 15 13:22:35 ypig dbus[1973]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.6" (uid=0 pid=2550 comm="/usr/sbin/gdm3 ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.16" (uid=0 pid=3059 comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/g")
May 15 13:22:35 ypig dbus[1973]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.6" (uid=0 pid=2550 comm="/usr/sbin/gdm3 ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.17" (uid=0 pid=3066 comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/g")
May 15 13:22:35 ypig dbus[1973]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.6" (uid=0 pid=2550 comm="/usr/sbin/gdm3 ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.18" (uid=0 pid=3073 comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/g")
May 15 13:22:35 ypig dbus[1973]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.6" (uid=0 pid=2550 comm="/usr/sbin/gdm3 ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.19" (uid=0 pid=3080 comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/g")

After a second reboot, the gdm3 screen appeared, but not the login box.
The corresponding part of the auth.log file:

May 15 13:25:10 ypig sshd[2854]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
May 15 13:25:10 ypig sshd[2854]: Server listening on :: port 22.
May 15 13:25:11 ypig dbus[1956]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.4" (uid=0 pid=2485 comm="/usr/sbin/gdm3 ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.5" (uid=0 pid=2886 comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/g")
May 15 13:25:12 ypig sshd[2876]: Accepted publickey for vlefevre from 140.77.51.8 port 44492 ssh2: RSA 2b:40:59:c7:25:8a:b6:16:06:c1:c8:b2:04:fc:1a:b8
May 15 13:25:13 ypig sshd[2876]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user vlefevre by (uid=0)
May 15 13:25:13 ypig sshd[2876]: pam_systemd(sshd:session): Asking logind to create session: uid=1000 pid=2876 service=sshd type=tty class=user seat= vtnr=0 tty= display= remote=yes remote_user= remote_host=sabre-04-domu-ssh.ens-lyon.fr
May 15 13:25:14 ypig sshd[2876]: pam_systemd(sshd:session): Reply from logind: id=1 object_path=/org/freedesktop/login1/session/_31 runtime_path=/run/user/1000 session_fd=7 seat= vtnr=0
May 15 13:25:22 ypig gdm-launch-environment][3185]: pam_unix(gdm-launch-environment:session): session opened for user Debian-gdm by (uid=0)
May 15 13:25:22 ypig gdm-launch-environment][3185]: pam_systemd(gdm-launch-environment:session): Asking logind to create session: uid=105 pid=3185 service=gdm-launch-environment type=x11 class=greeter seat=/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1 vtnr=0 tty= display=:0 remote=no remote_user= remote_host=
May 15 13:25:22 ypig gdm-launch-environment][3185]: pam_systemd(gdm-launch-environment:session): Failed to create session: No such file or directory
May 15 13:25:22 ypig gdm-launch-environment][3185]: pam_ck_connector(gdm-launch-environment:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0
May 15 13:25:39 ypig dbus[1956]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.28" (uid=105 pid=3611 comm="gnome-shell --mode=gdm ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.12" (uid=0 pid=2985 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")

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