Re: Gnome not starting from command prompt

>From: "Cliff mcDiarmid" <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [blfs-support] Gnome not starting from command prompt
>Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:43:14 +0000

>Figured I would get Gnome starting from the prompt before installing gdm or
>others.

>I'm using systemd LFS all latest packages. Some errors concern keyring but
>the problem seems to lie with a session id.

>This is from journalctl -b

>Jun 12 22:44:29 cliffhanger systemd[3385]: Queued start job for default
target>
>Main User Target.
>Jun 12 22:44:29 cliffhanger systemd[3385]: Created slice User Application
>Slice.
>Jun 12 22:44:29 cliffhanger systemd[3385]: Reached target Paths.
>Jun 12 22:44:29 cliffhanger systemd[3385]: Reached target Timers.
>Jun 12 22:44:29 cliffhanger systemd[3385]: Starting D-Bus User Message Bus
>Socket...
>Jun 12 22:44:29 cliffhanger systemd[3385]: Listening on PipeWire Multimedia
>System Sockets.
>Jun 12 22:44:29 cliffhanger systemd[3385]: Listening on D-Bus User Message
Bus
>Socket.
J>un 12 22:44:29 cliffhanger systemd[3385]: Reached target Sockets.
>Jun 12 22:44:29 cliffhanger systemd[3385]: Reached target Basic System.
>Jun 12 22:44:29 cliffhanger systemd[3385]: Reached target Main User Target.
>Jun 12 22:44:29 cliffhanger systemd[3385]: Startup finished in 433ms.
>Jun 12 22:44:38 cliffhanger gnome-session[3447]: gnome-session-binary[3447]:
>WARNING: Failed to upload environment to systemd:
>GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus>Jun 12 22:44:38 cliffhanger gnome-session-
>binary[3447]:

/snip/*

>Jun 12 22:44:38 cliffhanger gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop[3524]:
>discover_other_daemon: 0SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/xdg-cliffy/keyring/ssh
>Jun 12 22:44:38 cliffhanger gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop[3525]:
>discover_other_daemon: 0SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/xdg-cliffy/keyring/ssh
>Jun 12 22:44:38 cliffhanger gnome-keyring-secrets.desktop[3530]:
>discover_other_daemon: 0SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/xdg-cliffy/keyring/ssh
>Jun 12 22:44:38 cliffhanger gnome-shell[3539]: Running GNOME Shell (using
>mutter 48.2) as a Wayland display server
>Jun 12 22:44:38 cliffhanger org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3539]: Failed to setup:
>Native backend mode needs to be session controller
>Jun 12 22:44:38 cliffhanger gnome-session[3447]: gnome-session-binary[3447]:
>WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
>Jun 12 22:44:38 cliffhanger gnome-session-binary[3447]: WARNING: App
>'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
>Jun 12 22:44:38 cliffhanger gnome-session-binary[3447]: Unrecoverable failure
>in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop

Right.  The ./xinitrc used was:

export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
exec dbus-run-session gnome-session

This never worked of course

But then I loaded up lightdm-1.32.0 which works, boots straight into Gnome.
I've used this before and it seems reliable, easier than gdm.

Why does this work though?   What's wrong with the boot from startx?

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