FS#72765 - Failed to start GNOME Display Manager.
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Opened by Sergiu (physicalit) - Tuesday, 16 November 2021, 13:00 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 27 February 2022, 10:47 GMT
Opened by Sergiu (physicalit) - Tuesday, 16 November 2021, 13:00 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 27 February 2022, 10:47 GMT
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I have a system (nvidia gpu) with minimal packages on it, I use it for docker, but I also have a Desktop environment, gnome on it and that is it, no costume modification or anything.. After the update I did a few days ago gdm service won't start, someone fucked it up.. I am very curious why this is not posted on the main page of the community cause if I have this issue on a very basic system.. most likely all gnome users have it.. Additional info: * package version(s) GDM 41.0 * config and/or log files etc. Standard, nothing was modified. * link to upstream bug report, if any, not found. Steps to reproduce: Start the computer and the system will fail to start gdm. × gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Tue 2021-11-16 14:50:25 EET; 5s ago Process: 14308 ExecStart=/usr/bin/gdm (code=dumped, signal=SEGV) Main PID: 14308 (code=dumped, signal=SEGV) CPU: 27ms Nov 16 14:50:25 node1 systemd[1]: gdm.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'. Nov 16 14:50:25 node1 systemd[1]: gdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5. Nov 16 14:50:25 node1 systemd[1]: Stopped GNOME Display Manager. Nov 16 14:50:25 node1 systemd[1]: gdm.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Nov 16 14:50:25 node1 systemd[1]: gdm.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'. Nov 16 14:50:25 node1 systemd[1]: Failed to start GNOME Display Manager. Nov 16 14:50:25 node1 systemd[1]: gdm.service: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies. Nov 16 14:50:25 node1 systemd[1]: gdm.service: Failed to enqueue OnFailure= job, ignoring: Unit plymouth-quit.service no node1 :: /home/giumbai » gdm [1] 22020 segmentation fault (core dumped) gdm The error is so general.. nothing I can investigate.. no other service is down or affected.. the system works normally.. only issue I can not boot in the graphical mode. Please do not push updated that are not tested as stable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel like I should not say this.. but, please stop pushing bugs!!!!! |
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Closed by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Sunday, 27 February 2022, 10:47 GMT
Reason for closing: Upstream
Additional comments about closing: This isn't an archlinux issue and is an issue with gdm and nvidia drivers
Sunday, 27 February 2022, 10:47 GMT
Reason for closing: Upstream
Additional comments about closing: This isn't an archlinux issue and is an issue with gdm and nvidia drivers
I could not find any single reason in the log why it fails, there are some references to this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1924079, but I don't think it crashes because of that.
I think that all users that use the nvidia, nvidia-lts or the manual install of the nvidia driver from their website are affected.
So, basically not using the proprietary driver anymore.
I would prefer using the proprietary driver, but for now I need to do some work on my machine uaing the Deaktop Env.
I identified my problem as that i had nvidia-utils installed (not sure why).
This created an blacklist entry for nouveau in /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-utils.conf
Note that the nvidia proprietary drive is not installed / loaded.
after commenting out this blacklist entry my system boots fine again. Maybe this helps other people.