Bug 4127

Summary:	graphical login display manager fails to start (gdm/gnome session)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Martin Whitaker <mageia>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	gdm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Martin Whitaker 2012-01-14 11:33:17 CET

I performed an installation from the Mageia 2 alpha 3 x86_64 DVD, selecting only the LXDE desktop. Installation completed successfully, but on reboot the display manager made 6 attempts to start before giving up and leaving me in a text console. In /var/log/daemons/errors.log, the following messages are logged:

Jan 14 09:55:41 xxx sm-notify[4063]: Failed to open directory sm.bak: No such file or directory
Jan 14 09:55:44 xxx gnome-session[4856]: GLib-GIO-ERROR: No GSettings schemas are installed on the system#012aborting...
Jan 14 09:55:44 xxx gnome-session[4902]: GLib-GIO-ERROR: No GSettings schemas are installed on the system#012aborting...
Jan 14 09:55:45 xxx gnome-session[4949]: GLib-GIO-ERROR: No GSettings schemas are installed on the system#012aborting...
Jan 14 09:55:46 xxx gnome-session[4996]: GLib-GIO-ERROR: No GSettings schemas are installed on the system#012aborting...
Jan 14 09:55:47 xxx gnome-session[5043]: GLib-GIO-ERROR: No GSettings schemas are installed on the system#012aborting...
Jan 14 09:55:48 xxx gnome-session[5084]: GLib-GIO-ERROR: No GSettings schemas are installed on the system#012aborting...

This is repeated on every reboot.

urpmi claims the schemas are installed:

# urpmi gsettings-desktop-schemas
Package gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.3.2-2.mga2.x86_64 is already installed

I don't know if this is an installation problem or a package problem, so am filing against the installer.

Comment 1 Martin Whitaker 2012-01-14 11:35:27 CET

P.S. I did not see this bug when installing from the alpha 2 DVD.

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2012-01-16 15:29:53 CET

Hi thanks for the bug report.
Is consolekit installed ?

Source RPM: (none) => gdm

Comment 3 Martin Whitaker 2012-01-16 20:54:12 CET

Yes, consolekit is installed.

If I change the display manager to kdm or xdm in MCC, I get a working graphical login, so it's just gdm that doesn't work (as expected, given the error messages).

I have since done a trial installation on a different machine, which doesn't show this fault, so it seems very likely this is just a missing package.

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2012-01-16 22:28:07 CET

Can be related to bug 395

see https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395#c16

Comment 5 Martin Whitaker 2012-01-16 23:17:48 CET

I agree it's probably related. I know in my second (working) install, I selected the LXDE desktop in the primary package selection screen, whereas in my first install I think I selected it in the individual package selection screen (I was actually wanting to install XFCE - but that still hasn't been made available).

I'll hold off doing a reinstall for a day or two in case someone wants to track down which package is missing.

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2012-04-19 21:58:38 CEST

Hi Martin,

Is this bug still valid in beta 3?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 7 Martin Whitaker 2012-04-20 23:35:24 CEST

I've just tested this with a fresh install from the beta 3 DVD, and can't reproduce the bug. So I'm marking this as fixed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED