Question for GNOME3 users

[p3732]

I wanna metoo these gdm/gnome-shell errors. After getting a replacment DE running I thought I could debug this a bit, but did not get very far.

I tried upgrading the Manjaro packages to the archlinuxarm upstream ones, but that did not help. Still, there are no reports on their forum, which leads me to conclude that either a) the issue does not exist there b) the forums are not very active c) hardly anyone uses GNOME there.

Code:

$ for d in {/etc,/usr/share}/{dbus-1,polkit-1,pam.d}; do [ -d $d ] && sudo grep -ri '/dev[^i]\|dri[^v]\|gpu' $d; done

This does not result in any output for me.

I tried checking the logs of gdm and its subprocesses. GDM does not yield any unusual output, until it is stopped, when it says that a child process already was dead:

Code:

Feb 28 12:22:28 buddy systemd[1]: Starting GNOME Display Manager...
Feb 28 12:22:28 buddy systemd[1]: Started GNOME Display Manager.
Feb 28 12:31:06 buddy systemd[1]: Stopping GNOME Display Manager...
Feb 28 12:31:07 buddy gdm[1417]: Child process -1464 was already dead.
Feb 28 12:31:07 buddy gdm[1417]: GdmDisplay: Session never registered, failing
Feb 28 12:31:07 buddy gdm[1417]: GLib: g_hash_table_foreach: assertion 'version>
Feb 28 12:31:07 buddy systemd[1]: gdm.service: Succeeded.
Feb 28 12:31:07 buddy systemd[1]: Stopped GNOME Display Manager.

The only unusual thing in the Xorg output is

Code:

Feb 28 12:23:22 buddy /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1466]: (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch

but I don't think that is the source of the error. The suggested fix that I found on some BSD forum did not help anyway.

One last note-worthy thing, I found that gnome-control-center won't start either, failing at an assertion for visibility of a panel.

Code:

ERROR:../gnome-control-center/shell/cc-shell-model.c:458:cc_shell_model_set_panel_visibility: assertion failed: (valid)
Bail out! ERROR:../gnome-control-center/shell/cc-shell-model.c:458:cc_shell_model_set_panel_visibility: assertion failed: (valid)
Aborted (core dumped)