Bug 985506 - Gnome just hangs at after login
Summary: Gnome just hangs at after login
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-desktop
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-07-17 15:54 UTC by Steve Dickson
Modified: 2015-02-18 14:01 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-02-18 14:01:10 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Pic1: Login Screen (716.85 KB, image/jpeg)
2013-07-17 15:54 UTC, Steve Dickson
no flags Details
Blank screen after log in (627.62 KB, image/jpeg)
2013-07-17 15:55 UTC, Steve Dickson
no flags Details
List of gnome packages installed (4.64 KB, text/plain)
2013-07-17 15:56 UTC, Steve Dickson
no flags Details
List of "steved" processes running (2.83 KB, text/plain)
2013-07-17 15:58 UTC, Steve Dickson
no flags Details

Description Steve Dickson 2013-07-17 15:54:54 UTC
Created attachment 774843 [details]
Pic1: Login Screen

Description of problem:
After logging (see first pic) I get a blank screen (See 2d pic)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Freshly installation of Fedora 19

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login
2.
3.

Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
Cinnamon, KDE, LXDE and OpenBox all work

Only Gnome hangs

Comment 1 Steve Dickson 2013-07-17 15:55:59 UTC
Created attachment 774844 [details]
Blank screen after log in

Comment 2 Steve Dickson 2013-07-17 15:56:57 UTC
Created attachment 774845 [details]
List of gnome packages installed

Comment 3 Steve Dickson 2013-07-17 15:58:15 UTC
Created attachment 774847 [details]
List of "steved" processes running

Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2013-07-17 18:35:36 UTC
So steved and I looked at this a bit today.  For some reason that we can't immediately figure out his locale is getting set to en_US instead of en_US.UTF-8.  This causes GnomeWallClock to return NULL instead of the current time, and that makes gnome-shell throw an exception.

we should handle that better and we should also figure out how his locale is getting set incorrectly.  the locale is right in gdm's session worker and wrong in gnome-session.  putting the correct locale in ~/.bash_profile fixes things, so it must be something in the xinit scripts though it wasn't apparently anything in /etc/X11/xinitrc.d

Comment 5 Samuel Sieb 2013-10-22 21:27:16 UTC
I just ran into this.  I have Gnome set to save my session, but it isn't really working.  So I setup my session, then used "gnome-session-quit --logout" to make sure it would save my session.  From the login screen I tried to reboot the laptop, but due to an unrelated kernel issue, I ended up having to hard power off the laptop.  When it came back up and I tried to login, I just get that screen.

On a related note, where are the session logs now?  I can't find them anywhere and so I have no idea where to look for what's happening.  Fortunately, I managed to find this bug.

Comment 6 Samuel Sieb 2013-10-22 21:29:21 UTC
However, my LANG environment variable seems to be fine, so it's probably not the same issue.

Comment 7 Samuel Sieb 2013-10-22 21:41:20 UTC
From another bug, I discovered about setting debug on gdm.  Is that really the only way to get session logs now?

Anyway, you can ignore my other comments.  It seems that because of the hard power off, my saved session desktop file got corrupted (filled with 0 bytes).  That's why it can't start gnome-shell.

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