Bug#866897: gdm3: Impossible to restart gdm3 without rebooting

[Michael Biebl]

Am 02.07.2017 um 18:15 schrieb Matthew Vernon:
> Package: gdm3
> Version: 3.22.3-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am unable to restart gdm3 without rebooting my system. If I do
> /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart then vast quantites of logs are emitted, and
> no new X display appears.
> 
> Logs look like this, and loop fast (you can see the start of the
> repeated section below), producing 30 log lines a second indefinitely
> :-(
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matthew
> 
> Jul  1 23:57:54 aragorn gnome-session-binary[4170]: WARNING: Lost name on bus: org.gnome.SessionManager
> Jul  1 23:57:54 aragorn dbus[2621]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' (using servicehelper)
> Jul  1 23:57:54 aragorn kernel: [  444.296161] traps: gnome-shell[4178] trap int3 ip:b62e8e40 sp:bfb24fb0 error:0
> Jul  1 23:57:54 aragorn kernel: [  444.296168]  in libglib-2.0.so.0.5000.3[b629c000+12a000]
> Jul  1 23:57:54 aragorn dbus[2621]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1'
> Jul  1 23:57:54 aragorn gdm3: GLib: g_hash_table_find: assertion 'version == hash_table->version' failed
> Jul  1 23:57:54 aragorn gdm-launch-environment]: AccountsService: Could not get current seat: No data available
> Jul  1 23:57:55 aragorn gdm3: Child process 4674 was already dead.
> Jul  1 23:57:55 aragorn gdm3: Unable to kill session worker process
> Jul  1 23:57:55 aragorn console-kit-daemon[3948]: GLib-CRITICAL: Source ID 107 was not found when attempting to remove it
> Jul  1 23:57:55 aragorn gdm-launch-environment]: AccountsService: Could not get current seat: No data available
> Jul  1 23:57:55 aragorn gdm3: Child process -4719 was already dead.
> Jul  1 23:57:55 aragorn gdm3: Child process 4706 was already dead.
> Jul  1 23:57:55 aragorn gdm3: Unable to kill session worker process
> Jul  1 23:57:55 aragorn console-kit-daemon[3948]: GLib-CRITICAL: Source ID 120 was not found when attempting to remove it
> Jul  1 23:57:55 aragorn gdm-launch-environment]: AccountsService: Could not get current seat: No data available
> Jul  1 23:57:55 aragorn gdm3: Child process -4751 was already dead.
> Jul  1 23:57:55 aragorn gdm3: Child process 4740 was already dead.
> Jul  1 23:57:55 aragorn gdm3: Unable to kill session worker process
> Jul  1 23:57:55 aragorn console-kit-daemon[3948]: GLib-CRITICAL: Source ID 133 was not found when attempting to remove it
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.0
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

I suppose this is specific to the SysV init script.
Using systemctl restart gdm3 here works fine.

Would be great if you can further investigate. I don't think anyone from
the Debian GNOME team is still actively using sysvinit.

Regards,
Michael


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