[Bug 1700465] Re: gnome-shell --replace does not work: Can't initialize KMS backend: Could not get session ID: No such file or directory

[Expired for mutter (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: mutter (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1700465

[Bug 1700465] Re: gnome-shell --replace does not work: Can't initialize KMS backend: Could not get session ID: No such file or directory

[Expired for gnome-shell (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1700465] Re: gnome-shell --replace does not work: Can't initialize KMS backend: Could not get session ID: No such file or directory

Is this bug still present in the final release of 18.04 or later? The 'bionic' tag was added in 2017. ** Tags removed: artful zesty ** Changed in: mutter (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received

[Bug 1700465] Re: gnome-shell --replace does not work: Can't initialize KMS backend: Could not get session ID: No such file or directory

** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Importance: Low => Undecided -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1700465 Title: gnome-shell --replace does not work: Can't initialize KMS backend:

[Bug 1700465] Re: gnome-shell --replace does not work: Can't initialize KMS backend: Could not get session ID: No such file or directory

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: mutter (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1700465 Title:

[Bug 1700465] Re: gnome-shell --replace does not work: Can't initialize KMS backend: Could not get session ID: No such file or directory

** Also affects: mutter (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1700465 Title: gnome-shell --replace does not work: Can't initialize KMS

[Bug 1700465] Re: gnome-shell --replace does not work: Can't initialize KMS backend: Could not get session ID: No such file or directory

@Daniel this is what i get now with fresh artful & bionic installs: i can only login with Xorg, when sometimes ago, with the same hardware & a zesty -> artful dist-upgrade, wayland was used without problem. So is mutter faulty here, or ubuntu-drivers-common or libinput, as the system choose the

[Bug 1700465] Re: gnome-shell --replace does not work: Can't initialize KMS backend: Could not get session ID: No such file or directory

** Tags added: artful ** Tags added: bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1700465 Title: gnome-shell --replace does not work: Can't initialize KMS backend: Could not get session

[Bug 1700465] Re: gnome-shell --replace does not work: Can't initialize KMS backend: Could not get session ID: No such file or directory

** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1700465 Title: gnome-shell --replace does not work: Can't initialize KMS backend:

[Bug 1700465] Re: gnome-shell --replace does not work: Can't initialize KMS backend: Could not get session ID: No such file or directory

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1700465 Title:

[Bug 1700465] Re: gnome-shell --replace does not work: Can't initialize KMS backend: Could not get session ID: No such file or directory

I don't know anything about gnome internals, but with trying to strace, I see this: getpeername(2, 0x7ffec62742e0, 0x7ffec62742dc) = -1 ENOTSOCK (Socket operation on non-socket) which is odd, since stderr is not a socket usually, indeed ... Other than that, the mentioned error message can be