Description of problem: I upgraded an F16 qemu-kvm guest to F17 via preupgrade. Forced fallback mode was on. Upon upgrade, I got the 'Oh no, something has gone wrong!' screen instead of the gdm login prompt. Poking in the gdm logs showed fprint was causing errors. I removed the fprintd package, and gdm worked fine later.
It would be much more helpful to have the actual errors from the log...
(In reply to comment #1) > It would be much more helpful to have the actual errors from the log... Yes, but they vanished after a VM restart. Nothing in /var/log/gdm has 'fprint' in it anymore.
Well, reinstall fprintd and reproduce the bug. Or else we can't debug it.
Created attachment 590284 [details] /var/log/messages for Fprint problem I'm not the one who originally filed this bug, but I'm having the same problem after installing 64-bit F17 under VMWare. Here is my /var/log/messages file. I created this by forcing a log rotation and then running "killall gdm-binary" to restart gdm.
Created attachment 590287 [details] /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log for Fprint problem Here's the :0-greeter.log file from my system.
I just realized that my virtual machine didn't have a USB bus. When I added one, the problem went away.
Hans' version of the problem sounds familiar, I feel like we already have a report of that. Amit, is it the same issue in your case - your VM has no USB bus?
(In reply to comment #7) > Hans' version of the problem sounds familiar, I feel like we already have a > report of that. Amit, is it the same issue in your case - your VM has no USB > bus? Yes, this is w/o a usb bus in the VM. If I expose one using -usb on the qemu cmd line, I don't get the error screen anymore.
OK. I can't find the other report I was thinking of, so it must be a product of my fevered imagination. Adjusting summary...
I do not know it this helps, but I got these error messages in my /var/log/messages regarding this issue: Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost dbus-daemon[629]: dbus[629]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.25" (uid=42 pid=1063 comm="gnome-shell --gdm-mode ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.13" (uid=0 pid=919 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ") Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost dbus[629]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.25" (uid=42 pid=1063 comm="gnome-shell --gdm-mode ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.13" (uid=0 pid=919 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ") Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost dbus-daemon[629]: dbus[629]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper) Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost dbus[629]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper) Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost dbus-daemon[629]: ** (fprintd:1076): WARNING **: fprint init failed with error -99 Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost dbus-daemon[629]: dbus[629]: [system] Activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 157 Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost dbus[629]: [system] Activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 157 Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost dbus-daemon[629]: dbus[629]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.29" (uid=42 pid=1078 comm="gnome-shell --gdm-mode ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.13" (uid=0 pid=919 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ") Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost dbus[629]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.29" (uid=42 pid=1078 comm="gnome-shell --gdm-mode ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.13" (uid=0 pid=919 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ") Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost gdm-simple-slave[866]: WARNING: GdmSessionDirect: conversation gdm-password started more than once Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost dbus-daemon[629]: dbus[629]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper) Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost dbus[629]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper) Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost dbus-daemon[629]: ** (fprintd:1090): WARNING **: fprint init failed with error -99 Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost dbus-daemon[629]: dbus[629]: [system] Activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 157 Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost dbus[629]: [system] Activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 157 Aug 9 11:11:06 localhost gnome-session[983]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly Aug 9 11:11:10 localhost systemd-logind[610]: New session 2 of user tools. Aug 9 11:11:28 localhost systemd-logind[610]: New session 3 of user root. Aug 9 11:12:47 localhost dbus-daemon[629]: dbus[629]: [system] Activating service name='org.fedoraproject.Config.Services' (using servicehelper) Aug 9 11:12:47 localhost dbus[629]: [system] Activating service name='org.fedoraproject.Config.Services' (using servicehelper) Aug 9 11:12:47 localhost dbus-daemon[629]: dbus[629]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.fedoraproject.Config.Services' Aug 9 11:12:47 localhost dbus[629]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.fedoraproject.Config.Services' Aug 9 11:13:34 localhost dbus-daemon[629]: Running system-config-services dbus service at 'org.fedoraproject.Config.Services'. Aug 9 11:14:17 localhost ntpd[627]: 0.0.0.0 c615 05 clock_sync
"Me too" On a brand new install in a VM: qemu-kvm \ -m 3192 \ -cpu kvm64 \ -smp 2 \ -sdl \ -daemonize \ -k en-us \ -drive file=/mnt/storage/kvm/math.img,media=disk,index=0,if=virtio
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675006 but we can't just backport the fix because it caused a regression: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683426 so need to fix it "right" first.
Created attachment 621164 [details] /var/log/messages Reproduced in an F18 guest running in a VM from a nightly live cd and in an installed VM: Oct 3 13:20:22 localhost dbus-daemon[465]: ** (fprintd:930): WARNING **: fprint init failed with error -99 My work-around had been to switch to a console and run "yum erase fprintd". Passing "-usb" to qemu-kvm works too and is much more convenient. Thanks for the tip. On the guest: fprintd-0.4.1-3.fc18.x86_64 gdm-3.6.0-1.fc18.x86_64 On the host: qemu-kvm-1.0.1-1.fc17.x86_64 $ qemu-kvm -m 2048 -hda f18-test-2.img -cdrom ~/xfr/fedora/nightly-composes/Fedora-18-Nightly-20121003.08-x86_64-Live-desktop.iso -vga qxl -boot order=dc,menu=on
let's dupe this with the other one. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 810040 ***