[help] "GNOME on Wayland" always redirects to the login screen

From: William Di Luigi <williamdiluigi gmail com>
To: gnome-shell-list gnome org
Subject: [help] "GNOME on Wayland" always redirects to the login screen
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 00:48:42 +0000

Hi, from the GDM screen I can login (if "GNOME" is selected), but if "GNOME on Wayland" is selected, then I can't login because I get redirected to the GDM screen (as if I restarted GDM, but I didn't restart it).

I'm on Archlinux, and I had this issue for months (I still haven't managed to run gnome-session under wayland). I did install the "xorg-server-xwayland" package as suggested in the Arch wiki.

The following is what (I think) is the relevant log from the journal:

Feb 04 00:35:16 wil93-arch gdm-password][9701]: pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session opened for user wil93 by (uid=0)

Feb 04 00:35:16 wil93-arch systemd-logind[1755]: New session c14 of user wil93.

-- Subject: A new session c14 has been created for user wil93

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

-- Documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat

-- A new session with the ID c14 has been created for the user wil93.

-- The leading process of the session is 9701.

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch systemd-journal[195]: Suppressed 416 messages from /system.slice/gdm.service

-- Subject: Messages from a service have been suppressed

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

-- Documentation: man:journald.conf(5)

-- A service has logged too many messages within a time period. Messages

-- from the service have been dropped.

-- Note that only messages from the service in question have been

-- dropped, other services' messages are unaffected.

-- The limits when messages are dropped may be configured with

-- RateLimitInterval= and RateLimitBurst= in

-- /etc/systemd/journald.conf. See journald.conf(5) for details.

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch gdm-Xorg-:0[9531]: (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch gnome-session[9710]: gnome-session[9710]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_environ_setenv: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch gnome-session[9710]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_environ_setenv: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch kernel: gnome-shell[9719]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f6e628f4ece sp 00007fff2c918bf0 error 4 in libcogl.so.20.2.0[7f6e62882000+9f000]

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch gnome-session[9710]: gnome-session[9710]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell-wayland.desktop' killed by signal 11

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch gnome-session[9710]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell-wayland.desktop' killed by signal 11

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch gnome-session[9710]: Unrecoverable failure in required component gnome-shell-wayland.desktop

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch gdm-password][9701]: pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session closed for user wil93

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch gdm-Xorg-:0[9531]: (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch acpid[1747]: client 9531[0:0] has disconnected

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch acpid[1747]: client connected from 9531[0:0]

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch acpid[1747]: 1 client rule loaded

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch gdm-Xorg-:0[9531]: (II) AIGLX: Resuming AIGLX clients after VT switch

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch gdm-Xorg-:0[9531]: (II) intel(0): switch to mode 1920x1080 60 2 on LVDS1 using pipe 0, position (0, 0), rotation normal, reflection none

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch gdm-session-worker[9701]: <3>GLib: Source ID 59 was not found when attempting to remove it

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch gdm-Xorg-:0[9531]: (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: touchpad found

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch systemd-coredump[9724]: Process 9719 (gnome-shell) of user 1000 dumped core.

-- Subject: Process 9719 (gnome-shell) dumped core

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

-- Documentation: man:core(5)

-- Process 9719 (gnome-shell) crashed and dumped core.

-- This usually indicates a programming error in the crashing program and

-- should be reported to its vendor as a bug.

Feb 04 00:35:17 wil93-arch gdm-Xorg-:0[9531]: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: