Bug 3267 - after updating from 1 to cauldron: gdm fails to start in 32 bit Mageia on old Pentium 4 PCs (Cauldron Mageia 2)
Summary: after updating from 1 to cauldron: gdm fails to start in 32 bit Mageia on old...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: i586 Linux
Priority: Normal major
Target Milestone: Mageia 2
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Keywords: NEEDINFO
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Reported: 2011-11-04 16:17 CET by Ezequiel Partida
Modified: 2014-05-08 18:06 CEST (History)
10 users (show)

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Source RPM: gdm-3.2.1.1-1.mga2.i586
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Description Ezequiel Partida 2011-11-04 16:17:13 CET
Description of problem:


Mageia Cauldron GDM won't start, a sad face will appears & sometime not even the sad face will start.

Sometimes mageia does log in if autologin is enabled, but it won't work if autologin is disabled.

If KDM is istalled, Mageia works just fine.,

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gdm-3.2.1.1-1.mga2.i586


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Proceed with normal installation using Mageia 1 final CD with 32bit Mageia with GNOME 2.

2. Updated Mageia 1 with Gnome2 to the latest updates using " urpmi --auto-update -v "

3. Changed the repository to http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586

updated to the lates cauldron using " urpmi --auto-update -v "

Once everything is updated restart.

Sometimes mageia does log in if autologin is enabled, but it won't work if autologin is disabled.
Nicolas Vigier 2011-11-04 16:23:24 CET

CC: (none) => boklm
Component: Bugzilla => RPM Packages
Version: unspecified => Cauldron
Assignee: sysadmin-bugs => bugsquad
Product: Infrastructure => Mageia

Nicolas Vigier 2011-11-04 16:23:56 CET

CC: mageia-webteam, sysadmin-bugs => (none)

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2011-11-07 01:17:38 CET
Are you using systemd ?

there was some thread about gdm on the mageia-dev mailing list.
Comment 2 Ezequiel Partida 2011-11-08 07:24:51 CET
Hello Manuel,

Yes, I am using systemd?..

Is there a way to remove it?.. I tried but I get a message that it will damage my system..

I also looked at mageia-dev mailing list and I did find some problems reported but no solution yet..

Does anyone have a solution?.. 

Yesterday it worked fine using gnome-classic since gnome-shell was damaged but once I reinstalled the packaged I got the error again, I just cannot login.

Regards
Comment 3 Ezequiel Partida 2011-11-24 18:59:58 CET
Hi,

I installed another computer using the network installation for cauldron.

I installed KDE4 since the GNOME options seems not to be configured to download GNOME3 since it didn't install anything.

Well, once I installed Cauldron KDE4 from network installation, I installed gnome3 and removed KDE4, GDM works great in gnome-classic mode, I never get any errors at all.

It seems to me that the problem is when upgrading from GNOME2 to GNOME3 cauldron.

IT would be a good idea to track this problem and avoid getting it in future updrades when Mageia 2 is released.


Regards,
Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2012-01-20 14:49:51 CET
(In reply to comment #3)

> errors at all.
> 
> It seems to me that the problem is when upgrading from GNOME2 to GNOME3
> cauldron.
> 
> IT would be a good idea to track this problem and avoid getting it in future
> updrades when Mageia 2 is released.
> 


@ Olav

This happened over two months ago. If this can be an issue, I suppose this  bug should be assigned to you. WDYT?

CC: (none) => marja11, olav

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2012-02-27 21:31:01 CET
Is this bug still valid?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 6 Olav Vitters 2012-02-27 23:21:12 CET
Yeah, we need to check that upgrades work

Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 2

Comment 7 Marja Van Waes 2012-02-28 16:26:56 CET
(In reply to comment #5)
> Is this bug still valid?

(In reply to comment #6)
> Yeah, we need to check that upgrades work

cc'ing more gdm committers

Whoever wants to work on this:

Please assign this bug to yourself and set status to ASSIGNED

CC: (none) => dmorganec, fundawang, jani.valimaa, mageia, mageia, mageia, tmb
Summary: gdm fails to start in 32 bit Mageia on old Pentium 4 PCs (Cauldron Mageia 2) => After updating from 1 to cauldron: gdm fails to start in 32 bit Mageia on old Pentium 4 PCs (Cauldron Mageia 2)

Comment 8 Colin Guthrie 2012-02-28 17:13:47 CET
OK, so my first guess would be related to the pam files for gdm in /etc/pam.d/ folder. Make sure there are no .rpmnew files in there.
Dan Joita 2012-03-07 11:20:17 CET

CC: (none) => djmarian4u
Summary: After updating from 1 to cauldron: gdm fails to start in 32 bit Mageia on old Pentium 4 PCs (Cauldron Mageia 2) => after updating from 1 to cauldron: gdm fails to start in 32 bit Mageia on old Pentium 4 PCs (Cauldron Mageia 2)

Marja Van Waes 2012-03-25 07:46:20 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Comment 9 Colin Guthrie 2012-04-16 22:33:49 CEST
Is this still problematic?
Marja Van Waes 2012-04-17 06:58:41 CEST

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Jani Välimaa 2012-04-28 10:07:06 CEST

CC: jani.valimaa => (none)

Comment 10 Dave Hodgins 2012-04-28 20:12:10 CEST
In testing an upgrade using the pre-release rc dual cd, /etc/pam.d ends up with
-rw-r--r-- 1 root shadow 730 Apr 27 13:53 system-auth
-rw-r--r-- 1 root shadow 660 Feb 18 23:57 system-auth.rpmnew
so I expect the problem is still there.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 11 Colin Guthrie 2012-04-28 21:24:35 CEST
(In reply to comment #10)
> In testing an upgrade using the pre-release rc dual cd, /etc/pam.d ends up with
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root shadow 730 Apr 27 13:53 system-auth
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root shadow 660 Feb 18 23:57 system-auth.rpmnew
> so I expect the problem is still there.

But what does system-auth contain? I'm pretty sure that it should contain pam_systemd as I did ensure that %post scripts take care of adding it in. Just the fact that an .rpmnew file exists does not, in itself, mean there is a problem.

Have you checked if it's actually problematic?
Comment 12 Dave Hodgins 2012-04-28 23:47:34 CEST
(In reply to comment #11)
> (In reply to comment #10)
> > In testing an upgrade using the pre-release rc dual cd, /etc/pam.d ends up with
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root shadow 730 Apr 27 13:53 system-auth
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root shadow 660 Feb 18 23:57 system-auth.rpmnew
> > so I expect the problem is still there.
> 
> But what does system-auth contain? I'm pretty sure that it should contain
> pam_systemd as I did ensure that %post scripts take care of adding it in. Just
> the fact that an .rpmnew file exists does not, in itself, mean there is a
> problem.
> 
> Have you checked if it's actually problematic?

grep systemd system-auth
-session    optional      pam_systemd.so

No I haven't seen any problem due to this, so it looks like it is ok.
Sorry for the false alarm.
Comment 13 Colin Guthrie 2012-04-28 23:59:12 CEST
(In reply to comment #12)
> (In reply to comment #11)
> > Have you checked if it's actually problematic?
> 
> grep systemd system-auth
> -session    optional      pam_systemd.so
> 
> No I haven't seen any problem due to this, so it looks like it is ok.
> Sorry for the false alarm.

No need to apologise! False alarm is much nicer than a real alarm :D

OK, I think we can close this one too then :)

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

Nicolas Vigier 2014-05-08 18:06:15 CEST

CC: boklm => (none)


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