Bug#888610: gnome-shell: gdm greeter session sometimes exits 1: Can't initialize KMS backend: could not find drm kms device

[Manuel Bilderbeek]

Hi,

On 27-01-18 19:29, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 at 16:02:19 +0100, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
>> I do still see the issue at startup (I guess when the greeter is started):
>> ¯
>> jan 27 10:13:47 sonata gnome-shell[1297]: Can't initialize KMS backend: could not find drm kms device
>> jan 27 10:13:47 sonata gnome-session[1276]: gnome-session-binary[1276]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
>> jan 27 10:13:47 sonata gnome-session-binary[1276]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
>> jan 27 10:13:47 sonata gnome-session-binary[1276]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop
> 
> Am I right in thinking that immediately after this, gdm restarts the
> greeter, and on this second attempt (or on a third or fourth attempt)
> it works OK?

I should take a better look, I'll let you know if it's different than this.

> Does this have any practical effect on your use of gdm or GNOME, other
> than delaying your first opportunity to log in?

So: no.

But the 'sometimes' isn't valid for me: this seems to happen all the 
time for me. (I.e.: it happened at every boot I checked the log for in 
the last couple of days.)

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Kind regards,
Manuel