GDM not showing user / password promt (top bar and mouse visible)

On every ~1 out of ~3 boots GDM gets stuck, not showing the user / password promt:

I can move my mouse and open the calendar at the top and the power menu. I cannot shutdown / reboot my computer from GDM though, but this seems to be an unrelated bug: Can't shutdown/reboot from gdm - #5 by AlanP

Therefore I have to kill the power to reboot and try again and with some luck my user will appear and I can login.

/var/log/gdm is empty.

journalctl: -- Journal begins at Tue 2021-07-13 20:42:14 CEST, ends at Sun 2021-10-03 13:01: - Pastebin.com

With the most relevant entries probably being:

Okt 03 12:08:30 my-manjaro systemd-coredump[4997]: Failed to connect to coredump service: Connection refused
Okt 03 12:08:31 my-manjaro gdm[1119]: Gdm: Failed to contact accountsservice: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Accounts: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down.
Okt 03 12:08:31 my-manjaro systemd[1]: gdm.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Okt 03 12:08:31 my-manjaro systemd[1]: gdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Okt 03 12:08:31 my-manjaro systemd[1]: Stopped GNOME Display Manager.
Okt 03 12:08:31 my-manjaro systemd[1]: gdm.service: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies.
Okt 03 12:08:31 my-manjaro systemd[1]: Requested transaction contradicts existing jobs: Transaction for plymouth-quit.service/start is destructive (home.mount has 'stop' job queued, but 'start' is included in transaction).
Okt 03 12:08:31 my-manjaro systemd[1]: gdm.service: Failed to enqueue OnFailure= job, ignoring: Transaction for plymouth-quit.service/start is destructive (home.mount has 'stop' job queued, but 'start' is included in transaction).

inxi: System: Kernel: 5.13.19-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 - Pastebin.com

systemctl status gdm.service

gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2021-10-03 12:13:07 CEST; 58min ago
   Main PID: 1129 (gdm)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 38405)
     Memory: 5.7M
        CPU: 51ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/gdm.service
             └─1129 /usr/bin/gdm

Okt 03 12:13:07 my-manjaro systemd[1]: Starting GNOME Display Manager...
Okt 03 12:13:07 my-manjaro systemd[1]: Started GNOME Display Manager.
Okt 03 12:13:15 my-manjaro gdm-password][1865]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Okt 03 12:13:15 my-manjaro gdm-password][1865]: gkr-pam: stashed password to try later in open session
Okt 03 12:13:15 my-manjaro gdm-password][1865]: pam_systemd_home(gdm-password:account): systemd-homed is not available: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Okt 03 12:13:15 my-manjaro gdm-password][1865]: pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session opened for user user(uid=1000) by (uid=0)
Okt 03 12:13:15 my-manjaro gdm-password][1865]: pam_env(gdm-password:session): deprecated reading of user environment enabled
Okt 03 12:13:15 my-manjaro gdm-password][1865]: gkr-pam: gnome-keyring-daemon started properly and unlocked keyring
Okt 03 12:13:23 my-manjaro gdm[1129]: Gdm: Child process -1179 was already dead.

Maybe gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file has something to do with it?

The issue appeared a few days ago for me, possibly after updates. I have seen similar issues on the forum, but was not able to resolve it. Any help is appreciated! :slight_smile:

1 Like

Please read this:

  • Kernel 5.13 is EOL so please install both 5.4 and 5.10 LTS (Long Term Support) and see which one of the two troubles you least.

And as you’ve killed the power to your system multiple times, don’t forget to boot a Manjaro USB stick and fsck your / partition and as you’re using LUKS, don’t forget to fsck all your LUKS partitions too!

:crossed_fingers:

Switching back to 5.10 LTS kernel seems to have solved the issue. I haven’t had any more problems so far. fsck did not find anything. I will report back in case the issue returns. Thanks!

1 Like

This topic was automatically closed 2 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.