Bug#1040297: marked as done (gnome-shell: fails to start on login: failed to allocate 51540049304 bytes)
Your message dated Sat, 8 Jul 2023 23:02:59 +0100 with message-id and subject line Re: Bug#1040297: gnome-shell: fails to start on login: failed to allocate 51540049304 bytes has caused the Debian Bug report #1040297, regarding gnome-shell: fails to start on login: failed to allocate 51540049304 bytes to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact ow...@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 1040297: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1040297 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems --- Begin Message --- Package: gnome Version: 1:43+1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable X-Debbugs-Cc: vent...@debian.org Dear Maintainer, since yesterday, Gnome fails to start and falls back to GDM3 when I try to login. I cannot start gnome on wayland nor xorg anymore. Gnome classic fails as well. Falling back to the terminal and trying `startx` does also not start gnome either. Installing something else (MATE) helps. Since there was no upgrade in Gnome recently, I suspect that one of the dependencies got an upgrade. I do vaguely remember evolution, systemd and libc6 being the biggest updates today. Here's some output of journalctl that looks suspicious. Maybe it helps you: Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona dbus-daemon[1894]: [session uid=1000 pid=1894] Activating service name='org.gnome.ScreenSaver' requested by ':1.63' (uid=1000 pid=2485 comm="/usr/libexec/gsd-usb-pr> Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona dbus-daemon[1894]: [session uid=1000 pid=1894] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.portal.IBus' Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-software-service.desktop[2490]: Unable to acquire bus name 'org.gnome.Software' Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: ../../../glib/gmem.c:136: failed to allocate 51540049304 bytes Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: == Stack trace for context 0x557fe8d747b0 == Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #0 557fe9756f10 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/appDisplay.js:2124 (20b9b5e92b50 @ 110) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #1 7ffd1218ef90 I self-hosted:164 (3bea9db8c380 @ 272) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #2 557fe9756e78 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/appDisplay.js:2138 (20b9b5e92b00 @ 147) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #3 557fe9756de8 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/appDisplay.js:2229 (20b9b5e92dd0 @ 21) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #4 557fe9756d38 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/appDisplay.js:2106 (20b9b5e92a60 @ 325) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #5 557fe9756c98 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/appDisplay.js:490 (20b9b5e90ba0 @ 27) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #6 557fe9756bf8 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/appDisplay.js:2081 (20b9b5e92fb0 @ 27) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #7 557fe9756b40 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/appDisplay.js:2329 (20b9b5e93060 @ 336) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #8 557fe9756aa0 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/appDisplay.js:1844 (20b9b5e92970 @ 27) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #9 557fe9756a00 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/appDisplay.js:2305 (20b9b5e93600 @ 27) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #10 557fe9756958 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/appDisplay.js:1504 (20b9b5e915b0 @ 115) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #11 7ffd12191b10 I self-hosted:164 (3bea9db8c380 @ 272) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #12 557fe97568b8 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/appDisplay.js:1500 (20b9b5e914c0 @ 226) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #13 557fe9756808 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/appDisplay.js:1067 (20b9b5e904c0 @ 88) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #14 557fe9756778 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/appDisplay.js:1374 (20b9b5e91100 @ 44) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #15 557fe97566f8 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/appDisplay.js:638 (20b9b5e8f920 @ 12) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #16 7ffd12192880 b resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/_signals.js:114 (3bea9dba0790 @ 433) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #17 557fe9756670 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/appFavorites.js:75 (20b9b5e94d80 @ 35) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #18 557fe97565c0 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/misc/parentalControlsManager.js:95 (20b9b5e95510 @ 590) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #19 557fe9756528 i self-hosted:1429 (1caa8ee391f0 @ 30) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona gnome-shell[2112]: #20 7ffd12193f70 b self-hosted:632 (1caa8eeb2e70 @ 15) Jul 03 16:48:14 fiona kernel: __vm_enough_memory: pid: 2112, comm:
Processed: Re: Bug#1040297: gnome-shell: fails to start on login: failed to allocate 51540049304 bytes
Processing control commands: > reassign -1 libc6 2.37-3 Bug #1040297 [gnome-shell] gnome-shell: fails to start on login: failed to allocate 51540049304 bytes Bug reassigned from package 'gnome-shell' to 'libc6'. No longer marked as found in versions gnome-shell/43.6-1. Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #1040297 to the same values previously set Bug #1040297 [libc6] gnome-shell: fails to start on login: failed to allocate 51540049304 bytes Marked as found in versions glibc/2.37-3. > fixed -1 2.37-5 Bug #1040297 [libc6] gnome-shell: fails to start on login: failed to allocate 51540049304 bytes Marked as fixed in versions glibc/2.37-5. > tags -1 - moreinfo Bug #1040297 [libc6] gnome-shell: fails to start on login: failed to allocate 51540049304 bytes Removed tag(s) moreinfo. -- 1040297: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1040297 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems
Re: Bug#1040297: gnome-shell: fails to start on login: failed to allocate 51540049304 bytes
Control: reassign -1 libc6 2.37-3 Control: fixed -1 2.37-5 Control: tags -1 - moreinfo On Sat, 08 Jul 2023 at 16:08:14 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I've just updated all packages from unstable, including glibc and the > problem is solved. Let's assume this was the glibc bug with corrupted locale archives unless someone finds evidence to the contrary, then. I'll close the bug after the reassign command is processed. smcv
Bug#1038798: locales: transition from /etc/default/locale to /etc/locale.conf
Package: locales Version: 2.36-9 Followup-For: Bug #1038798 Dear Maintainer, transition from /etc/default/locale to /etc/locale.conf is a good idea. My debian systems have the /etc/default/locale -> /etc/locale.conf symlink already added manually for compatibility reasons. Will the proposed change break anything on upgrade from bookworm to trixie if the symlink already exists?
Re: Bug#1040297: gnome: Gnome fails to start on login and falls back to GDM3
I've just updated all packages from unstable, including glibc and the problem is solved. So, it might have been the one you've described. Thanks for your help and your work! Cheers, Bastian Am 08.07.23 um 11:32 schrieb Simon McVittie: On Thu, 06 Jul 2023 at 09:50:57 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: On Wed, 05 Jul 2023 at 22:44:40 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: #5 0x7f134cbe97ce g_utf8_collate_key (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8a7ce) #6 0x7f134ccee180 e_source_set_display_name (libedataserver-1.2.so.27 + 0x57180) Well, this is messed up - something is setting the display name of an ESource (a calendar or address book or something similar) to a value that is, apparently, so long that allocating memory for its collation key (a version that has been modified to sort in the correct locale-sensitive order) will fail. I wonder whether this is the same root cause as #1040452: glibc (>= 2.37-2) sometimes generating corrupted locale archives? That might explain why g_utf8_collate_key() would get nonsense results. Please try with glibc (>= 2.37-5) which fixes that bug, and maybe this one too. smcv -- Dr. Bastian Venthur https://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org
Re: Bug#1040297: gnome: Gnome fails to start on login and falls back to GDM3
On Thu, 06 Jul 2023 at 09:50:57 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jul 2023 at 22:44:40 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > > #5 0x7f134cbe97ce g_utf8_collate_key (libglib-2.0.so.0 > > + 0x8a7ce) > > #6 0x7f134ccee180 e_source_set_display_name > > (libedataserver-1.2.so.27 + 0x57180) > > Well, this is messed up - something is setting the display name of an > ESource (a calendar or address book or something similar) to a value that > is, apparently, so long that allocating memory for its collation key (a > version that has been modified to sort in the correct locale-sensitive > order) will fail. I wonder whether this is the same root cause as #1040452: glibc (>= 2.37-2) sometimes generating corrupted locale archives? That might explain why g_utf8_collate_key() would get nonsense results. Please try with glibc (>= 2.37-5) which fixes that bug, and maybe this one too. smcv
