gdm3 issue
Hi All,
Issue:
This issue started the day before. I log into Debian and instead of a
login screen I get a message about gnome-fallback session failing to
load and an alert asking me to contact the administrator.
The issue started when I removed old linux images from Ubuntu which is
on another partition. That resulted in a grub update from ubuntu and
since then I've had this issue. Ubuntu has its own swap and home
directories.
Looking at the error messages I found this in auth.log:
Dec 9 14:25:57 Sthir gdm-welcome][3599]: pam_unix(gdm-welcome:session):
session opened for user Debian-gdm by (uid=0)
Dec 9 14:25:57 Sthir gdm-welcome][3599]:
pam_ck_connector(gdm-welcome:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0
Dec 9 14:29:40 Sthir polkitd(authority=local): Registered
Authentication Agent for
unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.42
[/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object
path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_IN)
Dec 9 14:29:42 Sthir dbus[2670]: [system] Rejected send message, 2
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.43" (uid=113 pid=3818
comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-greeter ")
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.14" (uid=0 pid=3534
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Dec 9 14:29:42 Sthir dbus[2670]: [system] Rejected send message, 2
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.43" (uid=113 pid=3818
comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-greeter ")
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.14" (uid=0 pid=3534
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Dec 9 14:29:42 Sthir dbus[2670]: [system] Rejected send message, 2
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.43" (uid=113 pid=3818
comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-greeter ")
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.14" (uid=0 pid=3534
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Dec 9 14:29:42 Sthir dbus[2670]: [system] Rejected send message, 2
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.43" (uid=113 pid=3818
comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-greeter ")
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.14" (uid=0 pid=3534
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Dec 9 14:29:42 Sthir dbus[2670]: [system] Rejected send message, 2
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.43" (uid=113 pid=3818
comm="/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-greeter ")
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.14" (uid=0 pid=3534
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Dec 9 14:29:48 Sthir gdm3][3827]: pam_unix(gdm3:session): session
opened for user kailash by (uid=0)
Dec 9 14:29:48 Sthir gdm3][3827]: pam_ck_connector(gdm3:session):
So the error appears with the gdm greeter being rejected.
nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0
Dec 9 14:29:48 Sthir gdm-welcome][3599]: pam_unix(gdm-welcome:session):
session closed for user Debian-gdm
Dec 9 14:29:48 Sthir polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered
Authentication Agent for
unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name
:1.42, object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale
en_IN) (disconnected from bus)
Dec 9 14:29:52 Sthir polkitd(authority=local): Registered
Authentication Agent for
unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 (system bus name :1.63
[/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object
path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_IN)
Dec 9 14:30:04 Sthir login[3617]: pam_unix(login:session): session
opened for user kailash by LOGIN(uid=0)
Dec 9 14:32:08 Sthir sudo: kailash : TTY=tty1 ; PWD=/var/log ;
USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/less auth.log
Dec 9 14:32:08 Sthir sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for
user root by kailash(uid=0)
Dec 9 14:33:00 Sthir sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for
user root
Is this relevant? If not, what should I be looking at?
Sincerely,
Kailash
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