Bug 22342

Summary:	All GNOME sessions (standard, classic or over Xorg) fail on Dell Optiplex 320
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Luis Menina <liberforce>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	GNOME maintainers <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, ouaurelien
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	gnome-shell-3.24.3-1.mga6.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:	22362
Bug Blocks:
Attachments:	journalctl -b run as root after running startgnome

Description Luis Menina 2018-01-07 14:00:02 CET

Description of problem:
If gdm is enabled, it restarts again and again.
I tried to disable the automatic launch of the graphical session, so I can log in, which works. Then calling startgnome or startgnome_classic fails.
I join the logs for `journalctl -b`

Please note that Xfce4 works, but it uses an Xorg session.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-3.24.3-1

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mageia 6 with GNOME
2. At reboot GDM restarts in a loop

or (to avoid be trapped in the loop)
1. Install Mageia 6 with GNOME
2. Disable the graphical session being launched at startup
3. Reboot and log in
4. Run startgnome or startgnome_classic

Comment 1 Luis Menina 2018-01-07 14:11:23 CET

Created attachment 9881 [details]
journalctl -b run as root after running startgnome

I ran startgnome, it returns and error code of 143.
Then su'ed as root and run journalctl -b.

Comment 2 Luis Menina 2018-01-08 10:33:05 CET

There may be several problems here. I tried on a machine where GDM and the GNOME session works, and starting it in runlevel 3, logging in in console mode and running startgnome or startgnome_classic doesn't work either.

Marja Van Waes 2018-01-08 20:06:21 CET

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => gnome

Luis Menina 2018-01-09 16:33:09 CET

Summary: Impossible to open a GNOME session (classic or standard) on Dell Optiplex 320 (xfce works) => All GNOME sessions (standard, classic or over Xorg) fail on Dell Optiplex 320

Comment 3 Luis Menina 2018-01-09 16:52:48 CET

Not being able to log in runlevel 3 is now covered by bug #22362.

Luis Menina 2018-01-09 16:53:15 CET

Depends on: (none) => 22362

Comment 4 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-14 16:22:28 CEST

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CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVED