Created attachment 818602 [details] output of gdb thread apply all bt full Description of problem: When I boot my laptop, it often displays the Fedora f symbol but gdm never displays the login screen. Switching to a text console and killing gdm causes the login screen to appear and subsequently the machine works normally. I'm not sure what's happening, but I've attached gdb output of thread apply all bt full in the hopes that it will be helpful. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-3.8.4-2.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: 30% of the time, perhaps a little more
This behavior got progressively worse over time, until sometimes I had to boot the laptop multiple times to get a login, until it stopped two weeks ago. I'll cross my fingers and close the BZ.
Bah, as soon as I close the bug it reappears. I should also note that the behavior changed a bit from what I was seeing originally: I was previously able to switch to a text console, but recently no login prompts appeared there, either. I was able to log in via ssh when I saw the hang this morning, but systemctl status gave no useful information (at least to me) about the source of the failure. Executing killall gdm did however cause the login screen to appear and login prompts to appear on the text consoles. Dunno if this is specific to my hardware, but I'm going to reopen in case it's not.
My working theory at this point that this behavior is the result of a hardware fault on my laptop. Since no one else seems to be reporting it, I started playing with the boot process, and I find that if I let the laptop sit at the grub prompt for twenty or thirty seconds before booting I do not see the hang, which makes me think maybe there's a flaky connection somewhere in the machine that just needs to heat up a bit. Anyway, reclosing.
Same issue since about half a year. gdm login screen is missing very often after booting or logout. My personal, rather unprofessional workaround is to close the lid of my laptop to start hibernate mode. After canceling hibernate, the login screen appears. Operating System: Linux 3.15.8-200.fc20.x86_64 Architecture: x86_64 gdm-Version: 3.10.0.1 Other Fedora users also have this issue: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/51480/frequently-no-gdm-login-screen-after-booting/
So, please reopen this bug. Thanks.
*** Bug 1047572 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've also experienced this bug. I boot my system, and instead of GDM I saw a gray background which looks like what can be seen in the main monitor when gdm itself is being shown on a separate monitor (this bug might be related to bug #691620). (I guess that for whatever reason GDM thinks that I've an external monitor connected and tries to use that instead of my laptop LCD). My workaround for seeing GDM is to switch to text virtual terminals using Alt+Ctrl+F2 and switch back to GDM using Alt+Ctrl+F1. After doing this a few times, GDM screen is visible again! Bug I'm not sure it is related to GDM itself. Once, a similar situation happened for me after login too. In this case, the gnome-shell which was ran by gdm was consuming 100% CPU and I had to kill it with SIGKILL. Also killed Xorg to re-login. There is also another issue that could be related to this one too: I've created my own Fedora remix called Parsidora which is provided as an installation media, and is created based on Fedora 20 + updates. While it works find on many other hardware, when I boot the installer on my own laptop (where the GDM issue happens for me); Anaconda screen doesn't appear. Instead, I see a background similar to what I see instead of GDM when I boot my updated Fedora 20. This can be the same problem too. So, I guess that this problem is related to kernel/Xorg, or Gnome itself, rather than GDM. I'll try switching my login manager to KDM to see if it happens there too. My graphics card is Intel GM965/GL960 using i915 kernel module.
(In reply to Hedayat Vatankhah from comment #7) > My workaround for seeing GDM is to switch to text virtual terminals using > Alt+Ctrl+F2 and switch back to GDM using Alt+Ctrl+F1. After doing this a few > times, GDM screen is visible again! This also works for me. > My graphics card is Intel GM965/GL960 using i915 kernel module. Mine is also Intel GM965/GL960!
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