Sent: Friday, September 01, 2017 at 11:25 PM From: "Ken Moffat" <zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com[http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support]> To: "BLFS Support List" <blfs-support at lists.linuxfromscratch.org[http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support]> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Seg fault when starting Gnome On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 10:48:18PM +0200, Cliff McDiarmid wrote:
> I have included Strace readouts, as attachments, both from the command line > and from Twm. They are similar, but there is nothing obvious. Calls seem to > be satisfied, unless a more experienced eye can >see something. If someone > has the time I would appreciate it.>> Cliff > But whatever it is, it looks as if *something*, perhaps related to> that > EPERM, got logged in a journal. Maybe it only says that things> got killed. > I know almost nothing about current systemd, but is it possible this> got > logged differently, i.e. maybe it needs some different magic> words when you > use journalctl or whatever it is called (andthis> >stage I suspect the words > will be blue :) >Thanks Ken. I'm now convinced that this problem, i.e. a brand new gnome >session won't start, is because of no session id for the user(or for root for >that matter) As the followers of Systemd will >know pam_systemd registers >user sessions with the systemd login manager, systemd-logind.service. >Loginctl repeatly shows no session after logging in as a user(or root). I've >trawled Google for advice on WHY no session would not be created and found >very little. >Do any of you know why this might not happen? I can't see the point in just >reinstalling Pam and Systemd. I've checked various conf. files and made >additions and then subtractions when it didn't >work. This is not necessary a solved question but more of a compromise. I had to install(reluctantly)gdm and then was able to boot into Gnome. From the command prompt I could not get a user id in '/run/user'. Cliff -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
