Bug#658290: gdm-simple-slave[31794]: WARNING: Failed to set slave bus name on parent: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

Thu Feb 2 15:33:06 UTC 2012

forwarded 658290 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669250
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Dear Debian folks,

Am Mittwoch, den 01.02.2012, 21:42 +0100 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> Package: gdm3
> Version: 3.0.4-4
> Severity: important

> sometimes wanting to switch users, GDM does not start up for the
> (second) user and the screen stays black with a curser _ blinking in the
> top left corner.
> 
> The only way to get a working system again is to log in using for
> example `ssh` and to issues `sudo service gdm3 restart`. This
> unfortunately destroys the session of the already logged in user and
> kills the programs.
> 
> I am not sure how to debug this problem. It is not reproducible but
> happened two or three times already. You will find some excerpts from
> log files ahead.
> 
> 	$ dmesg
> 	[…]
> 	[18517.614833] packagekitd[15743]: segfault at 8 ip 0000000008057124 sp 00000000ffe577a0 error 4 in packagekitd[8048000+49000]
> 	[18921.802652] packagekitd[26960]: segfault at 8 ip 0000000008057124 sp 00000000fff569c0 error 4 in packagekitd[8048000+49000]
> 	[22110.984904] packagekitd[31607]: segfault at 8 ip 0000000008057124 sp 00000000ffe1a130 error 4 in packagekitd[8048000+49000]
> 
> This seems to be unrelated though and has happened for quite some time
> already. This is also shown in the Linux kernel ring buffer attached to
> my report #655934 against the Linux kernel image [1].

this is indeed a problem with PackageKit and I submitted a separate bug
report as #658293 [2].

[…]

For this (GDM) problem I created a new ticket in the GNOME Bugzilla [3].

Thanks,

Paul

> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/655934 
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/658293
[3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669250

> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
> ii  accountsservice                             0.6.15-3
> ii  adduser                                     3.113+nmu1
> ii  awesome [x-window-manager]                  3.4.11-1
> ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                     0.10.0-3
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                       1.5.41
> ii  gconf2                                      3.2.3-1
> ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]           3.2.1-1
> ii  gnome-session-bin                           3.2.1-1
> ii  gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager]  3.2.1-1
> ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]        3.2.1-2
> ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                   3.2.0-2
> ii  libaccountsservice0                         0.6.15-3
> ii  libatk1.0-0                                 2.2.0-2
> ii  libattr1                                    1:2.4.46-5
> ii  libaudit0                                   1:1.7.18-1.1
> ii  libc6                                       2.13-25
> ii  libcairo-gobject2                           1.10.2-6.2
> ii  libcairo2                                   1.10.2-6.2
> ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                          0.28-3
> ii  libcanberra0                                0.28-3
> ii  libdbus-1-3                                 1.4.16-1
> ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                            0.98-1
> ii  libfontconfig1                              2.8.0-3.1
> ii  libfreetype6                                2.4.8-1
> ii  libgconf2-4                                 3.2.3-1
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                          2.24.0-2
> ii  libglib2.0-0                                2.30.2-6
> ii  libglib2.0-bin                              2.30.2-6
> ii  libgtk-3-0                                  3.2.3-1
> ii  libpam-modules                              1.1.3-7
> ii  libpam-runtime                              1.1.3-7
> ii  libpam0g                                    1.1.3-7
> ii  libpango1.0-0                               1.29.4-2
> ii  librsvg2-common                             2.34.2-2
> ii  libselinux1                                 2.1.0-4.1
> ii  libupower-glib1                             0.9.15-1
> ii  libwrap0                                    7.6.q-22
> ii  libx11-6                                    2:1.4.4-4
> ii  libxau6                                     1:1.0.6-4
> ii  libxdmcp6                                   1:1.1.0-4
> ii  libxklavier16                               5.1-3
> ii  libxrandr2                                  2:1.3.2-2
> ii  lsb-base                                    3.2-28.1
> ii  metacity [x-window-manager]                 1:2.34.1-2
> ii  policykit-1-gnome                           0.105-2
> ii  upower                                      0.9.15-1
> ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                 276-2
> 
> Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
> ii  at-spi                 1.32.0-1
> ii  desktop-base           6.0.7
> ii  gnome-icon-theme       3.2.1.2-1
> ii  gnome-power-manager    3.2.1-2
> ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.2.2-2
> ii  x11-xkb-utils          7.6+4
> ii  xserver-xephyr         2:1.11.3.901-2
> ii  xserver-xorg           1:7.6+11
> ii  zenity                 3.2.0-1
> 
> Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
> ii  gnome-mag             1:0.16.3-1
> ii  gnome-orca            2.30.2-2
> ii  gok                   2.30.0-1
> ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.2.2-2
> ii  metacity              1:2.34.1-2
> 
> -- debconf information:
> * shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
>   gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3
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