gdm-simple-slave[31794]: WARNING: Failed to set slave bus name on parent: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
Submitted by Paul Menzel
Link to original bug (#669250)
Description
Using GDM 3.0.4-4 from Debian/unstable sometimes the GDM screen does not show up when switching users. I think I have not yet experienced this when just logging out. But I am not sure. I am also not sure if that only happens in conjunction with suspend and resume, i. e. only after the system was resumed and then persists until the system is halted.
Sometimes wanting to switch users, GDM does not start up for the (second) user and the screen stays black with a curser _ blinking in the top left corner.
The only way to get a working system again is to log in using for
example ssh
and to issues sudo service gdm3 restart
. This
unfortunately destroys the session of the already logged in user and
kills the programs.
I am not sure how to debug this problem. It is not reproducible but happened two or three times already. You will find some excerpts from log files ahead.
I could not spot anything relevant in the Linux kernel ring buffer (dmesg
).
Looking at /var/log/syslog
there are a lot of warnings.
Feb 1 19:32:33 joe gdm-simple-slave[23533]: WARNING: Failed to get value: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Please find the compressed log file attached.
At 18:57 the system was resumed and at the popped up screen saver »Switch user« was selected. Then the screen stayed black with a cursor blinking in the top left corner at around 19:31 the GDM window appeared and the could log in indicated by the PulseAudio messages. At around 20:09 this user was logged out (not switch user) and the screen stayed black with the cursor blinking in the top left corner.
I guess that the gdm-simple-slave
was somehow killed by the Linux
kernel although I could not find any messages supporting this. Please
find the output of ps aux | grep -i gdm
also attached.
Debugging help is greatly appreciated.
This report is more or less copied from the report I submitted to the Debian BTS [1].
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658290
Version: 3.0.x