On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> It's really weird; can I see /var/log/messages (or whatever logger >> file you have)? With Enable=true in the [debug] key on >> /etc/gdm/custom.conf, we should be able to see why gdm is dying. > > The output is below > >> My flags are: >> >> Installed versions: 3.2.0-r1[1](05:20:40 PM 10/11/2011)(consolekit >> elibc_glibc gnome-keyring gnome-shell introspection ipv6 tcpd xklavier >> -accessibility -debug -fprint -selinux -smartcard -test -xinerama) >> >> Mmmh. I didn't even know you could remove gnome-keyring from gdm. If >> you are using GNOME, I don't see no reason to disable it. Maybe try >> it? > > OK I will add it to my use flags. That machine has profile > linux/x86/10.0. My real machine has profile > linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome. Clearly the x86 vs amd64 is right, but > I could(?) change my profile to desktop/gnome. But that sounds like a > big change that could open a can of worms. My main machine (running > gnome 2 not 3) has the gnome-keyring use flag for gdm) > >> Anyhow, the logs from gdm failing should tell us something. I don't >> think is the video, like Michael suggested; supposedly gnome-shell >> would detect that. > > I should have said that the video is working. The "blue drapery" > appears for a second before we get the black screen with the "oh no" > msg.
Yeah, but Michael suggested that gnome-shell is crashing with your particular combination of card/drivers. It is possible, for the quick search I did for this problem. What it is true is that gnome-shell is dying when gdm calls it: Oct 12 17:47:48 oldlap gnome-session[15888]: DEBUG(+): GsmXSMPClient: IceProcessMessagesIOError on '0x80aa870 [gnome-shell 106560af3f298b1c4413184560649172300000158880000]' If it is related to the video card/driver that you use, try reemerging cogl and clutter; it doesn't matter that a world upgrade don't want to reemerge it, sometimes the ebuilds change without changing versions. My versions and useflags of cogl and clutter are: # emerge -1pv clutter cogl These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild R ~] media-libs/cogl-1.8.0 USE="doc examples introspection pango -debug -test" 0 kB [1] [ebuild R ~] media-libs/clutter-1.8.0 USE="doc introspection -debug" 0 kB [1] Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
