FS#39921 - [gdm] GDM does not start with AMD Catalyst

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ľubomír Kučera (Kuci) - Thursday, 17 April 2014, 12:36 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 17 April 2014, 12:45 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

GDM 3.12 does not start with AMD Catalyst GPU drivers installed. When using open source ati drivers, GDM starts normally.

systemd log:


● gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; disabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2014-04-17 14:28:27 CEST; 1min 21s ago
Main PID: 2863 (gdm)
CGroup: /system.slice/gdm.service
└─2863 /usr/bin/gdm

Apr 17 14:29:08 kuci-ntb gdm[2863]: GLib-GObject: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to 'GdmSimpleSlave'
Apr 17 14:29:08 kuci-ntb gdm[2863]: GLib-GObject: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to 'GdmSimpleSlave'
Apr 17 14:29:08 kuci-ntb gdm[2863]: GLib-GObject: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to 'GdmSimpleSlave'
Apr 17 14:29:08 kuci-ntb gdm[2863]: Child process 2898 was already dead.
Apr 17 14:29:08 kuci-ntb gdm[2863]: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.110132 seconds
Apr 17 14:29:08 kuci-ntb gdm[2863]: Child process 2900 was already dead.
Apr 17 14:29:08 kuci-ntb gdm[2863]: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.101382 seconds
Apr 17 14:29:08 kuci-ntb gdm[2863]: Child process 2902 was already dead.
Apr 17 14:29:08 kuci-ntb gdm[2863]: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.101827 seconds
Apr 17 14:29:08 kuci-ntb gdm[2863]: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors


X logs do not contain any useful information.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Thursday, 17 April 2014, 12:45 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  catalyst is not in repository.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 17 April 2014, 12:44 GMT
Not a gdm bug, catalyst bug. X crashes due to a segfault in catalyst, your Xorg logs should have backtraces.

Loading...