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FS#34955 - [cinnamon] Unable to start Cinnamon

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Robin Dupret (robin850) - Thursday, 25 April 2013, 18:24 GMT
Last edited by Balló György (City-busz) - Saturday, 04 May 2013, 14:26 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Alexandre Filgueira (faidoc)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:

Hello, I'm encountering a bug with Cinnamon. I'm unable to start it. I'm quite a newbie with desktop environments but I try to start it through GDM and from the command line but it both fails. My package are all up to date. For now, waiting this to be fixed, I've downgraded all of my packages thanks to ARM.

I don't know how I can help. I've read that there are incompatibilities with Gnome 3.8 but they have been fixed. Apparently a patch should be apply to this package (https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/pull/1888#issuecomment-17004319) but thanks to some topics on the forum, it's apparently applied on it but I'm still encountering issues to start Cinnamon. When I try to start it, I get a screen with "Oh, no! Something gone wrong!".

Here are some logs I have thanks to journalctl:

avril 25 14:31:10 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
avril 25 14:31:11 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: localuser:robin being added to access control list
avril 25 14:31:11 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: /etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- gnome-session
avril 25 14:31:12 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: (gnome-settings-daemon:538): Gvc-WARNING **: Failed to connect context: OK
avril 25 14:31:19 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Failed to play sound: File or data not found
avril 25 14:31:19 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Thu Apr 25 2013 14:31:19 GMT+0200 (CEST)
avril 25 14:31:19 nevada gnome-session[503]: Entering running state
avril 25 14:31:19 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Log level 16: Could not initialize NMClient /org/freedesk
avril 25 14:31:19 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Log level 16: fetch_connections_done: error fetching conn
avril 25 14:31:20 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: ** (nm-applet:660): WARNING **: Could not initialize NMClient /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager: Unit d
avril 25 14:31:20 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
avril 25 14:31:20 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: ** (nm-applet:660): WARNING **: fetch_connections_done: error fetching connections: (32) Unit dbus-or
avril 25 14:31:20 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: ** (nm-applet:660): WARNING **: Failed to register as an agent: (32) Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.Networ
avril 25 14:31:20 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: ** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area
avril 25 14:31:20 nevada goa[654]: goa-daemon version 3.8.1 starting [main.c:113, main()]
avril 25 14:31:24 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: ** (nemo:656): WARNING **: Can not calculate _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS
avril 25 14:31:24 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: ** (nemo:656): WARNING **: Can not calculate _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS
avril 25 14:31:24 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: ** (nemo:656): WARNING **: Can not get _NET_WORKAREA
avril 25 14:31:24 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: ** (nemo:656): WARNING **: Can not determine workarea, guessing at layout
avril 25 14:31:51 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: [756:783:0425/143151:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.E
avril 25 14:31:51 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: [756:783:0425/143151:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.E
avril 25 14:31:54 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: [756:756:0425/143153:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(529)] Failed to call method: org.chromium.Mtpd.EnumerateSt
avril 25 14:31:54 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by an
avril 25 14:31:58 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a tim
avril 25 14:31:58 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp
avril 25 14:31:58 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a tim
avril 25 14:31:58 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp
avril 25 14:32:42 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a tim
avril 25 14:32:42 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp
avril 25 14:33:51 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: [756:756:0425/143351:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxV
avril 25 14:39:56 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: JS ERROR: !!! Exception in callback for signal: activate
avril 25 14:39:56 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: JS ERROR: !!! message = '"app is null"'
avril 25 14:39:56 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: JS ERROR: !!! fileName = '"/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/userMenu.js"'
avril 25 14:39:56 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '850'
avril 25 14:39:56 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: JS ERROR: !!! stack = '"UserMenuButton<._onMyAccountActivate@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/userMen
avril 25 14:39:56 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: wrapper@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:213
avril 25 14:39:56 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: _emit@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/signals.js:124
avril 25 14:39:56 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: PopupBaseMenuItem<.activate@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/popupMenu.js:114
avril 25 14:39:56 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: wrapper@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:213
avril 25 14:39:56 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: IMStatusChooserItem<._init/<@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/userMenu.js:179
avril 25 14:39:56 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: "'
avril 25 14:51:34 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: [756:756:0425/145134:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxV
avril 25 14:52:43 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: [756:756:0425/145243:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxV
avril 25 14:53:49 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: [756:756:0425/145349:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxV
avril 25 14:57:35 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: ** (gnome-control-center:3411): WARNING **: Could not initialize NMClient /org/freedesktop/NetworkMan
avril 25 14:57:35 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: (gnome-control-center:3411): network-cc-panel-WARNING **: Error connecting to ModemManager: Erreur lo
avril 25 14:57:36 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: ** (gnome-control-center:3411): WARNING **: fetch_connections_done: error fetching connections: (32)
avril 25 15:01:02 nevada gnome-session[3647]: WARNING: Failed to acquire org.gnome.SessionManager
avril 25 15:01:14 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: [756:756:0425/150114:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxV
avril 25 15:11:03 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: [756:756:0425/151103:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxV
avril 25 15:22:30 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : last_focus_time (3133196) is greater than comparison time
avril 25 15:22:30 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Log level 16: STACK_OP_RAISE_ABOVE: sibling window 0x1800
avril 25 15:22:30 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Log level 16: STACK_OP_LOWER_BELOW: sibling window 0x1800
avril 25 15:22:34 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may
avril 25 15:22:34 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Got a request to focus 0x1400007 (Bureau) with a timestam
avril 25 15:32:06 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 16: invalid attribute 'name'
avril 25 15:32:06 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 26: invalid attribute 'name'
avril 25 15:32:07 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 36: invalid attribute 'name'
avril 25 15:32:07 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 16: invalid attribute 'name'
avril 25 15:32:07 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 26: invalid attribute 'name'
avril 25 15:32:07 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 36: invalid attribute 'name'
avril 25 15:32:07 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 16: invalid attribute 'name'
avril 25 15:32:07 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 26: invalid attribute 'name'
avril 25 15:32:07 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 36: invalid attribute 'name'
avril 25 15:32:07 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 16: invalid attribute 'name'
avril 25 15:32:07 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 26: invalid attribute 'name'
avril 25 15:32:07 nevada /etc/gdm/Xsession[503]: Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 36: invalid attribute 'name'
-- Reboot --
avril 25 15:36:45 nevada goa[657]: goa-daemon version 3.6.2 starting [main.c:112, main()]
avril 25 15:36:56 nevada gnome-session[514]: CRITICAL: gsm_manager_set_phase: assertion `GSM_IS_MANAGER (manager)' failed


Please let me know if I should attach another log file, I'm not very good at system management (and by the way English too).

Have a nice day and thanks for this awesome package which is always up to date! Hope this can be fixed quickly.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Balló György (City-busz)
Saturday, 04 May 2013, 14:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Tuesday, 30 April 2013, 00:52 GMT
Please make your system up to date, start Cinnamon with GDM, and then post your ~/.xsession-errors file. (Back this file up before start an another desktop.)
Comment by Robin Dupret (robin850) - Wednesday, 01 May 2013, 09:32 GMT
Hello,

After I had update, I was unable to start GDM. I don't know why. Here the last lines of my ~/.xsession-errors https://gist.github.com/robin850/6ab3a265a9efec650092. I try to start cinnamon via startx.

Sorry for the delay, Have a nice day.
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Wednesday, 01 May 2013, 11:29 GMT
You can't run Cinnamon as root. Run it as a standard user.
Comment by Robin Dupret (robin850) - Wednesday, 01 May 2013, 12:05 GMT
I haven't run cinnamon as a standard user. I run `startx` as the user `robin`. And there is no call to sudo in my .xinitrc :

~ % cat .xinitrc
exec gnome-session-cinnamon
~ %
Comment by Xzorg6 (xzorg6) - Wednesday, 01 May 2013, 16:50 GMT
I also have this bug since recent versions changes on Cinnamon and Gnome (3.8).

I can start Cinnamon from GDM as usual, but just after that I can see my desktop for less than a second, the desktop blinks and then I have the "Oh, no! Something gone wrong!".

Gnome session have no problem to start and works very well.
The "Oh, no! Something gone wrong!" appears also on "Gnome Classic" and "Gnome Flashback" sessions, not immediatly but after some minutes.

EDIT:
I've found how to resolve my problem, seems related to this bug : https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/1945
So I basicly do a "gsettings set org.cinnamon.overrides workspaces-only-on-primary false" and my Cinnamon session is back working !
Hoping that it might help
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Thursday, 02 May 2013, 16:16 GMT
@robin850: then please start X with the following command:

# startx&>startx-output.log

and post the startx-output.log file here.
Comment by Robin Dupret (robin850) - Saturday, 04 May 2013, 08:39 GMT
Hello,

I'm quite confused, GDM is unable to start (it was still the case before) but with your command, Cinnamon starts. \o/ Anyway, here's the content of the startx-output.log file https://gist.github.com/robin850/d3cb38045d0e98b4231c.

Thanks for the update Xzorg6, I will have a look if the issue comes back. :)

Have a nice day.
Comment by Robin Dupret (robin850) - Saturday, 04 May 2013, 08:51 GMT
By the way, sorry to add another comment on this ticket but I've notice that yaourt tells me that nautilus wasn't required by any package so I removed it. Maybe it's the source of the bug? Hope it can help. Have a nice day.
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Saturday, 04 May 2013, 14:26 GMT
Okay, then I close this task.

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