Bug#879624: Similar issue, also X1 carbon

[Michael Hanke]

Looking into possible known issues for at-spi or gnome-terminal-server
did not bring up anything useful for me.

FTR: Installing xfce4 or kde both gives me a working desktop. So this
might actually be a GNOME issue rather than an X issue, or an
interaction of the two.

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Michael Hanke  wrote:
> Update:
>
> I stopped the gdm3 service and started a freshly installed slim login
> manager. I comes right up, no issues.
>
> Starting the GNOME session from slim, however, results in immediate
> failure. This is syslog from the last message of slim to the X server
> shutdown:
>
> Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner slim[8940]: /usr/bin/X11/xauth:  file
> /home/mih/.Xauthority does not exist
> Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner org.a11y.Bus[9347]: Activating service
> name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
> Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner org.a11y.Bus[9347]: Successfully activated
> service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
> Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner org.a11y.atspi.Registry[9373]: SpiRegistry
> daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
> Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner gnome-terminal-[9379]: gnome-terminal-server:
> Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
> Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner org.a11y.atspi.Registry[9373]: XIO:  fatal IO
> error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
> Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner org.a11y.atspi.Registry[9373]:   after 21
> requests (19 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[9347]: A connection to the
> bus can't be made
> Nov  4 09:49:58 meiner kernel: [  249.268908] [drm] Reducing the
> compressed framebuffer size. This may lead to less power savings than
> a non-reduced-size. Try to increase stolen memory size if available in
> BIOS.
> Nov  4 09:49:58 meiner slim[8940]: (II) Server terminated successfully
> (0). Closing log file.
>
> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Michael Hanke  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> same here, after upgrade to buster no X anymore. Normal start works, but
>> ends at terminal login. Manual startx makes the screen flicker briefly, then
>> back to terminal. X log contain no errors (EE).
>>
>> Downgrade to stretch didn't change the situation in any way. Going back from
>> linux 4.13 to 4.8 had no effect either.
>>
>> During downgrade gconf2 choked (triggers hung and never completed). During
>> upgrade I think I saw some gconf error message too, but I cannot find a
>> trace of them anywhere.
>>
>> Any advice would be highly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Michael Hanke
> http://psychoinformatics.de



-- 
Michael Hanke
http://psychoinformatics.de

Bug#879624: Similar issue, also X1 carbon

[Michael Hanke]

Update:

I stopped the gdm3 service and started a freshly installed slim login
manager. I comes right up, no issues.

Starting the GNOME session from slim, however, results in immediate
failure. This is syslog from the last message of slim to the X server
shutdown:

Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner slim[8940]: /usr/bin/X11/xauth:  file
/home/mih/.Xauthority does not exist
Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner org.a11y.Bus[9347]: Activating service
name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner org.a11y.Bus[9347]: Successfully activated
service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner org.a11y.atspi.Registry[9373]: SpiRegistry
daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner gnome-terminal-[9379]: gnome-terminal-server:
Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner org.a11y.atspi.Registry[9373]: XIO:  fatal IO
error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner org.a11y.atspi.Registry[9373]:   after 21
requests (19 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
Nov  4 09:49:56 meiner org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[9347]: A connection to the
bus can't be made
Nov  4 09:49:58 meiner kernel: [  249.268908] [drm] Reducing the
compressed framebuffer size. This may lead to less power savings than
a non-reduced-size. Try to increase stolen memory size if available in
BIOS.
Nov  4 09:49:58 meiner slim[8940]: (II) Server terminated successfully
(0). Closing log file.

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Michael Hanke  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> same here, after upgrade to buster no X anymore. Normal start works, but
> ends at terminal login. Manual startx makes the screen flicker briefly, then
> back to terminal. X log contain no errors (EE).
>
> Downgrade to stretch didn't change the situation in any way. Going back from
> linux 4.13 to 4.8 had no effect either.
>
> During downgrade gconf2 choked (triggers hung and never completed). During
> upgrade I think I saw some gconf error message too, but I cannot find a
> trace of them anywhere.
>
> Any advice would be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Michael
>



-- 
Michael Hanke
http://psychoinformatics.de

Bug#879624: Similar issue, also X1 carbon

[Michael Hanke]

Hi,

same here, after upgrade to buster no X anymore. Normal start works, but
ends at terminal login. Manual startx makes the screen flicker briefly,
then back to terminal. X log contain no errors (EE).

Downgrade to stretch didn't change the situation in any way. Going back
from linux 4.13 to 4.8 had no effect either.

During downgrade gconf2 choked (triggers hung and never completed). During
upgrade I think I saw some gconf error message too, but I cannot find a
trace of them anywhere.

Any advice would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Michael