Login via Slim now = Black Screen, startx ok

[shrike]

Hi,

Following a recent 'world' update (~amd64) I get just a black screen after entering UsrID/passwd. rc-status shows xdm 'crashed' from tty1. The setup for xfce/Slim login seems ok:

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cat /etc/conf.d/xdm 
# We always try and start X on a static VT. The various DMs normally default
# to using VT7. If you wish to use the xdm init script, then you should ensure
# that the VT checked is the same VT your DM wants to use. We do this check to
# ensure that you haven't accidentally configured something to run on the VT
# in your /etc/inittab file so that you don't get a dead keyboard.
CHECKVT=7

# What display manager do you use ?  [ xdm | gdm | kdm | gpe | entrance ]
# NOTE: If this is set in /etc/rc.conf, that setting will override this one.
DISPLAYMANAGER="slim"

cat /etc/env.d/90xsession 
XSESSION="Xfce4"

cat .xinitrc 
exec > /home/shrike/.xsession-errors 2>&1 

exec startxfce4
# exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch

Log files show errors:

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cat /var/log/slim.log

slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.
slim: open_session: Unable to open session: Unable to get information about the calling process


cat .xsession-errors
 
/usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1583): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Unable to determine the session we are in: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GeneralError: Unable to lookup session information for process '1583'

(xfdesktop:1551): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion 'G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

(xfdesktop:1551): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion 'G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

Yet with this information I don't see a cause. Bug 499738 seems a possibility.

Thanks,

shrike

[opascariu]

Hi,

I experience the same issue, after an world update.
My slim.log, besides the lines posted by shrike, also contain the following lines

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slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.
slim: pam_authentication(): Authentication failure

It seems that an workaround would be to compile slim without pam and consolekit, which makes me believe that bug #499738 is not the cause of this issue.

[manny15]

I have the same symptom, but my slim.log looks a bit different:

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slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.
slim: open_session: Unable to open session: Unable to get information about the calling process

[opascariu]

@manny15
Those lines appear in my slim.log also, but they were mentioned by shrike and I have omitted them from my post.
Sorry for the confusion

[jetboo]

Hi, im also having the same issue

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slim: open_session: Unable to open session: Unable to get information about the calling process

startx works fine tho

Jetboo

[Mistwolf]

If you have the line

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slim: open_session: Unable to open session: Unable to get information about the calling process

in your logs, the issue is https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501330. It appears that it is caused by upgrading to GLib 2.38.