| charlesay | hi, gdm fails to load during boot leaving me without a desktop, how can this possibly be fixed? | 00:36 |
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| darkxst | charlesay, would need to see logs | 01:08 |
| darkxst | how far do you get? do you see the login screen? | 01:09 |
| charlesay | darkxst: no - it's showing "Starting Gnome Display Manager [fail]", then starts or stops some other services and the last message in the log is about samba services (this without further errors) and then hangs there | 01:38 |
| darkxst | charlesay, can you paste /var/log/:0-greeter.log | 01:39 |
| darkxst | ^ /var/log/gdm/ | 01:40 |
| darkxst | also :0.log as well | 01:40 |
| charlesay | how exactly would i do this on my tty? i am not familiar with the format those logs are in | 01:46 |
| darkxst | they are just text files. you could use pastebinit | 01:46 |
| darkxst | Noskcaj, if you want to merge gnome-user-share it can probably go into ppa:ubuntu-desktop/transitions now | 01:53 |
| charlesay | ok, here goes: http://paste.ubuntu.com/10181258/ | 01:54 |
| darkxst | X seems happy enough, the other log? | 01:56 |
| charlesay | ok, http://paste.ubuntu.com/10181303/ | 01:57 |
| darkxst | that seems much less happy | 01:58 |
| darkxst | but seems gnome-shell did start and no hints to what is failing | 01:59 |
| darkxst | charlesay, enable Debug in /etc/gdm/custom.conf | 02:00 |
| darkxst | reboot and try paste that greeter log again | 02:00 |
| charlesay | is it enough to just uncomment the [debug] enable=true line? | 02:02 |
| darkxst | yes | 02:02 |
| charlesay | ok, i'll report back in a minute | 02:04 |
| charlesay | darkxst: here is the new log of :0-greeter.log, but to me it does not look more verbose: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1081454 | 02:11 |
| darkxst | that link doesnt work | 02:12 |
| charlesay | sorry, forgot a digit : http://paste.ubuntu.com/10181454 | 02:14 |
| darkxst | odd | 02:14 |
| darkxst | There should be a heap of DEBUG lines | 02:14 |
| charlesay | could i try to reinstall gdm? | 02:15 |
| darkxst | that won't help | 02:16 |
| darkxst | seems gnome-session is somewhat absent | 02:17 |
| darkxst | you do have that installed right? | 02:18 |
| charlesay | yes, 3.9.90 | 02:20 |
| darkxst | charlesay, anything gnome related in /var/crash/ | 02:21 |
| charlesay | not obviously so. there is an empty file called ' .lock' | 02:23 |
| darkxst | guess you need to find out why gnome-session is not launching then | 02:23 |
| charlesay | the other new file there is called _usr_lib_tracker_tracker-miner-fs.1000.crash | 02:24 |
| darkxst | that won't affect much | 02:25 |
| darkxst | (tracker dosen't even run until you login, and even when it crashes things should still boot fine) | 02:27 |
| charlesay | in the boot log there is one more fail-message, about the SMB/CIFS Active Directory Server, but that really should be unrelated. | 02:29 |
| darkxst | since your intel I suppose you could try boot with nomodeset | 02:31 |
| darkxst | or try lightdm and see if you can login to GNOME session with | 02:32 |
| charlesay | i was just going to ask you whether trying lightdm would be an idea | 02:32 |
| darkxst | wouldnt hurt | 02:32 |
| darkxst | lightdm is a little more resilient with gpu issues, but the X logs looked fine | 02:33 |
| charlesay | do I just apt-get install it, and how do I tell the system to use it? | 02:33 |
| darkxst | install it and it popup a configuration screen | 02:33 |
| darkxst | also accessible via dpkg-reconfigure lightdm | 02:34 |
| charlesay | you mean the config screen will show up when i reboot? or i'd just run the reconfigure command? | 02:35 |
| darkxst | config screen will show up when you install lightdm | 02:36 |
| darkxst | you will need to run the reconfigure command to switch back gdm though | 02:36 |
| charlesay | ah, it's there now | 02:37 |
| charlesay | it's finished installing lightdm, so I reboot into it? | 02:40 |
| darkxst | yes | 02:42 |
| charlesay | okay, let's see what happens... | 02:44 |
| charlesay | darkxst: hm, in lightdm i get to the login screen, but when I enter my password the session doesn't start and the login screen returns/stays there without comment, it complains if the password is wrong | 02:52 |
| darkxst | paste ~/.cache/upstart/gnome-session-GNOME.log | 02:56 |
| charlesay | http://paste.ubuntu.com/10181924/ | 02:59 |
| darkxst | gnome-shell:2434): Gjs-WARNING **: JS ERROR: TypeError: Shell.StageInputMode is undefined | 02:59 |
| darkxst | onFocusChange@/home/daro/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/maximus-two@wilfinitlike.gmail.com/app_menu.js:74 | 02:59 |
| darkxst | WindowManager<.actionMoveWorkspace@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/windowManager.js:1137 | 02:59 |
| darkxst | wrapper@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:169 | 02:59 |
| darkxst | WindowManager<._showWorkspaceSwitcher@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/windowManager.js:1115 | 02:59 |
| darkxst | wrapper@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:169 | 02:59 |
| darkxst | try disable maximus | 03:00 |
| darkxst | though something seems to be killing your X server | 03:00 |
| darkxst | gtg though now | 03:01 |
| charlesay | ok thank you for your help | 03:02 |
| charlesay | 1! | 03:02 |
| darkxst | gsettings set org.gnome.shell extensions-enabled '[]' | 03:03 |
| charlesay | That puts out "No such key 'extensions-enabled' " | 03:12 |
| charlesay | Gnome fails to load and I have session log with a huge amount of window manager warnings and gnome shell errors. how do I find the root cause for this? | 03:48 |
| charlesay | http://paste.ubuntu.com/10182314/ | 03:49 |
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| b-yeezi | Hi all. Is there a good resource that explains how to change the GDM theme? | 18:27 |
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| UnDim | Hello everyone | 19:39 |
| Noskcaj | hi UnDim | 19:42 |
| Noskcaj | UnDim, You said that you're developer in your email, what programming languages do you know, and how would you like to help? | 19:49 |
| UnDim | last couple of years it's been c# and java. I have played around with vala a little in the last couple of months | 19:54 |
| Noskcaj | UnDim, My suggest is, find a bug that affects you (bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu and bugzilla.gnome.org) and try and fix it. git.gnome.org will says what language a program is written in | 20:03 |
| UnDim | Noskcaj, Sounds good. Quick question. Is there a document that shows the correct way to submit a fix? I have already install Mutt so I can send plan text emails. | 20:05 |
| Noskcaj | UnDim, Make a diff, attach it to the bug report(s), then i'll work you through packaging | 20:06 |
| UnDim | Also, I am open to doing anything to help you out until I get up to speed on the coding. | 20:07 |
| UnDim | Thanks | 20:07 |
| Noskcaj | You could maybe make some headerbar/titlebar patches. While gnome is switching to headerbars, all other DEs only look good with traditional menubars. Most gnome devs haven't bothered making the latter usecase work | 20:29 |
| Noskcaj | Meaning we have to manually patch them | 20:29 |
| UnDim | Ok. Is there a bug for it? | 20:37 |
| Noskcaj | UnDim, It's probably not that great to start with actually, since every package is different. e.g. bug v | 20:41 |
| Noskcaj | bug 1385560 | 20:42 |
| ubot5 | bug 1385560 in Gnome System Monitor "gnome-system-monitor 3.14.1-1 uses headerbar on all DEs" [Wishlist,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1385560 | 20:42 |
| Noskcaj | I'll try and find some unfixed ones now | 20:42 |
| Noskcaj | Go back to my original suggestion, headerbar stuff isn't nice to start with | 20:47 |
| UnDim | no worries. | 20:48 |
| Noskcaj | rhythmbox ans smuxi are both C#, so maybe bugs in them are a good place to start | 20:52 |
| Noskcaj | *and | 20:52 |
| Noskcaj | darkxst, Could you point UnDim in the direction of something he can help with? | 20:57 |
| darkxst | UnDim, both baobab and gnome-contacts need headerbar patches | 20:59 |
| darkxst | they are both written in vala, which is somewhat similar to c# I believe | 20:59 |
| UnDim | darkxst, vala is very similar. | 21:01 |
| UnDim | i will look into those | 21:01 |
| Noskcaj | :) | 21:02 |
| Noskcaj | darkxst, Also, appstream-glib branch is done. Still no response from grilo-plugins maintainer though | 21:02 |
| darkxst | Noskcaj, did you re-enable the tests? | 21:41 |
| darkxst | nm, looknig at it now | 21:42 |
| darkxst | Noskcaj, theres quilt noise in the debdiff | 21:43 |
| darkxst | also the patch is missing headers | 21:46 |
| darkxst | try .patch instead of .diff (on github) | 21:47 |
| darkxst | Noskcaj, also uess you saw Laney's email about not landing gtk 3.15, too many issues popped up | 22:15 |
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