2.6.25-rc1/2 regression: first-time login into gnome fails

2.6.25-rc1/2 regression: first-time login into gnome fails

[Romano Giannetti]

Hi,

	I have a very strange, but fully reproducible, regression with
2.6.25-rc1 -rc2. I have an ubuntu 7.10 fully updated.

	The first time after boot, when I login to gnome (through gdm) 
the login half-fails with a Setting Daemon error: failed to connect to
socket /tmp/dbus-<some random stuff>: connection refused. Nothing in the
logs, and there is no such socket in /tmp. 

If I log out and then log in again, all works ok. 

With 2.6.24.2 there is no such a problem.

.config, dmesg (2M buffer size) and syslog here: 

http://www.dea.icai.upcomillas.es/romano/linux/info/


	Romano 


(Back to 2.6.24.2, because ndiswrapper broke again, and ath5k doesn't
like (yet) my atheros adapter...) 

	
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Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 regression: first-time login into gnome fails

[Ray Lee]

On Feb 18, 2008 2:56 AM, Romano Giannetti <romanol@upcomillas.es> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>         I have a very strange, but fully reproducible, regression with
> 2.6.25-rc1 -rc2. I have an ubuntu 7.10 fully updated.
>
>         The first time after boot, when I login to gnome (through gdm)
> the login half-fails with a Setting Daemon error: failed to connect to
> socket /tmp/dbus-<some random stuff>: connection refused. Nothing in the
> logs, and there is no such socket in /tmp.
>
> If I log out and then log in again, all works ok.
>
> With 2.6.24.2 there is no such a problem.
>
> .config, dmesg (2M buffer size) and syslog here:
>
> http://www.dea.icai.upcomillas.es/romano/linux/info/
>
>
>         Romano
>
>
> (Back to 2.6.24.2, because ndiswrapper broke again, and ath5k doesn't
> like (yet) my atheros adapter...)

It may be a race. Please try booting up, then waiting for a minute or
two once you see the gdm login screen, then try logging in.

If that succeeds then something (dbus perhaps) is hanging on something
that eventually times out.

Ray

Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 regression: first-time login into gnome fails

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:15:01AM -0800, Ray Lee wrote:
> It may be a race. Please try booting up, then waiting for a minute or
> two once you see the gdm login screen, then try logging in.
> 
> If that succeeds then something (dbus perhaps) is hanging on something
> that eventually times out.

Just upgraded my laptop to 2.6.25-rc6 and I see the same.  A little
instrumentation shows that there is no socket to connect to aka the
server side process (whatever that is) didn't start.

Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 regression: first-time login into gnome fails

[Ray Lee]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:15:01AM -0800, Ray Lee wrote:
>  > It may be a race. Please try booting up, then waiting for a minute or
>  > two once you see the gdm login screen, then try logging in.
>  >
>  > If that succeeds then something (dbus perhaps) is hanging on something
>  > that eventually times out.
>
>  Just upgraded my laptop to 2.6.25-rc6 and I see the same.  A little
>  instrumentation shows that there is no socket to connect to aka the
>  server side process (whatever that is) didn't start.

Hmm. Okay, mind if I ask some stupid questions?

I'm assuming you upgraded from 2.6.24, correct? (not .25-rcX).

Are you running either debian or ubuntu? If so, do you have the
dbus-x11 package installed? Alternately, does /usr/bin/dbus-launch
exist? If no, try installing dbus-x11 and try again. I think a
side-effect of installing is to start dbus earlier, and may perhaps
avoid the race (if it is a race that's causing all this, which I still
think it is).

References if you're bored:
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395488
  http://www.mail-archive.com/desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg139625.html

If the above doesn't help, is there anything interesting in ~/.xsession-errors?

Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 regression: first-time login into gnome fails

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:47:30AM -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
> I'm assuming you upgraded from 2.6.24, correct? (not .25-rcX).

Yes.

> Are you running either debian or ubuntu?

Yes.

> If so, do you have the
> dbus-x11 package installed? Alternately, does /usr/bin/dbus-launch
> exist? If no, try installing dbus-x11 and try again. I think a
> side-effect of installing is to start dbus earlier, and may perhaps
> avoid the race (if it is a race that's causing all this, which I still
> think it is).

Yes, installing dbus-x11 makes everything work properly, aka paper
over the underlying issue.