Gnome cannot start

[peterbsd]

Hello,

I have fresh installation of OpenBSD 7.6 and installed gnome 46
disabled xenodm and enabled multicast messagebus avahi_daemon gdm

Gnome after starting displays failing icon ...something has gone wrong

and I think that pasted daemon log lines below has something with it.
After second day of searching forums and trying to resolve it no success.
Help me please what should I try ?

Dec 11 11:33:11 bsd gnome-session-binary[56566]: WARNING: Unable to find required component 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Sharing'
Dec 11 11:33:24 bsd ntpd[36495]: peer 162.159.200.1 now valid
Dec 11 11:33:24 bsd ntpd[36495]: peer 212.55.254.189 now valid
Dec 11 11:33:24 bsd ntpd[36495]: peer 87.197.132.218 now valid
Dec 11 11:33:27 bsd ntpd[36495]: peer 185.242.56.5 now valid
Dec 11 11:33:28 bsd ntpd[36495]: peer 213.81.129.99 now valid
Dec 11 11:34:45 bsd ntpd[60673]: adjusting local clock by 0.895004s
Dec 11 11:37:12 bsd avahi-daemon[21948]: Got SIGTERM, quitting.
Dec 11 11:37:12 bsd avahi-daemon[21948]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface em0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.11.
Dec 11 11:37:12 bsd avahi-daemon[21948]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface lo0.IPv6 with address ::1.
Dec 11 11:37:12 bsd avahi-daemon[21948]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface lo0.IPv4 with address 127.0.0.1.
Dec 11 11:37:12 bsd avahi-daemon[21948]: avahi-daemon 0.8 exiting.
Dec 11 11:37:12 bsd gdm-launch-environment][43204]: Gdm: The connection is closed
Dec 11 11:37:12 bsd gdm[32443]: Gdm: Child process -268 was already dead.
Dec 11 11:37:12 bsd gdm[32443]: Gdm: GdmDisplay: Session never registered, failing
Dec 11 11:37:12 bsd gdm[32443]: GLib: Source ID 8 was not found when attempting to remove it
Dec 11 11:37:53 bsd dhcpleased[27845]: adding 192.168.1.11 to em0 (lease from 192.168.1.4)

[jggimi]

Hello, and welcome!

I understand that Gnome requires 3D acceleration to function correctly.

Would you please post the contents of:

• dmesg(8)
• /etc/rc.conf.local
• /var/log/Xorg.0.log

These may help determine the source of the problem.

[peterbsd]

Machine is Thinkpad T520

[jggimi]

Thank you. At first glance, nothing jumps out at me. Someone else may see something I've missed, and, I will review again after $DAYJOB ends today.

[jmccue]

Did you try this to create an xorg.conf ?

Xorg -config

Also you may want to enable ampd(8).

For gnome, the only thing I can see is you may want to enable dbus, see file:

/usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/dbus

I am far from a expert in understanding what dmesg reports. But dbus is needed for gnome.

[peterbsd]

There are running three dbus-daemon processes. messagebus script under /etc/rc.d/ contains this:

...
daemon="/usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system"
...

and this command line is visible in ps output like first instance of dbus-daemon.

another two instances are several lines below.
Part of ps output:

_dbus    42740  0.0  0.0  1856  2776 ??  I       6:33PM    0:00.03 - /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system
_avahi   52276  0.0  0.0  1016  2464 ??  S       6:33PM    0:00.03 - avahi-daemon: -avahi-daemon: running [bsd.local] (avahi-daemon)
root     89182  0.0  0.1 10496  6536 ??  I       6:33PM    0:00.11 - /usr/local/sbin/console-kit-daemon
_polkitd 56995  0.0  0.1  5668  6276 ??  I       6:33PM    0:00.05 - /usr/local/lib/polkit-1/polkitd
root     95737  0.0  0.0  4852  5792 ??  I       6:33PM    0:00.05 - /usr/local/libexec/accounts-daemon
root     81871  0.0  0.0  1156  1408 ??  Ip      6:33PM    0:00.00 - /usr/sbin/cron
_gnome-i 96984  0.0  0.0  5360  5976 ??  I       6:33PM    0:00.03 - /usr/local/libexec/at-spi-bus-launcher
_gnome-i 59577  0.0  0.0  1520  2988 ??  I       6:33PM    0:00.02 `-- /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/usr/local/share/defaults/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 13 --address=unix:path=/var/run/gnome-initial-setup/.cache/at-spi/bus_0
_gnome-i 61987  0.0  0.1  6372  7188 ??  I       6:33PM    0:00.03 - /usr/local/libexec/gvfsd
_gnome-i 96301  0.0  0.1  4448  6592 ??  I       6:33PM    0:00.03 - /usr/local/libexec/at-spi2-registryd
root      5627  0.0  0.1  5856  6692 C0- I       6:33PM    0:00.08 - /usr/local/sbin/gdm
_x11     46157  0.0  0.4 25952 53212 ??  I       6:33PM    0:01.50 |-- /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -background none -noreset -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-_gdm-OZBLY2/database -nolisten tcp vt5 (Xorg)
root     95548  0.0  0.0  2972  1468 ??  IpU     6:33PM    0:00.08 | `-- X: [priv] (Xorg)
root     57353  0.0  0.0  3920  5852 ??  I       6:33PM    0:00.03 `-- gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-launch-environment] (gdm-session-worker)
_gnome-i 19013  0.0  0.0   776  1292 ??  I       6:33PM    0:00.00   `-- dbus-run-session -- gnome-session --autostart /usr/local/share/gdm/greeter/autostart --session gnome-initial-setup
_gnome-i 94600  0.0  0.0  1752  3084 ??  I       6:33PM    0:00.04     |-- dbus-daemon --nofork --print-address 4 --session
_gnome-i 21236  0.0  0.1  6116 12568 ??  I       6:33PM    0:00.10     `-- /usr/local/libexec/gnome-session-binary
_gnome-i 59494  0.0  0.2  9432 26220 ??  I       6:33PM    0:00.26       `-- /usr/local/libexec/gnome-session-failed

[peterbsd]

Regarding to

/usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/dbus

There are two scripts one to add to ~/.xinitrc and second to add to ~/.xsession
These files does not exist in my /root directory so I created them and put suggested scripts to them.
I am not sure if is it correct but after rebooting problem is still present.

[jggimi]

Originally Posted by peterbsd

These files does not exist in my /root directory...

Try running gnome as a non-root user. Running from root is never considered best practice, and it might be a contributing factor to this problem.

[shep]

"There are two scripts one to add to ~/.xinitrc and second to add to ~/.xsession"

~/.xinitrc is the startup script invoked by the startx command.
~/.xession is invoked by xenodm.

You start X with one or the other and neither of them are recommended to run Gnome in OpenBSD.

What I would suggest is deleting ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession and running $ startx. This will verify that X-windows runs and has the necessary firmware for your graphics chip.

If the problem is not X-windows, I would review /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/gnome
linked here.

[peterbsd]

Originally Posted by jggimi

Try running gnome as a non-root user. Running from root is never considered best practice, and it might be a contributing factor to this problem.

Yes this was problem.
When I created user and reboot then gnome does not stop and displayed login prompt with that new username. So it seems that minimally one non-root user must exist.
Problem resolved.

Thank you !