Debian Bug report logs - #888610
gnome-shell: gdm greeter session sometimes exits 1: Can't initialize KMS backend: could not find drm kms device

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Package: gnome-shell; Maintainer for gnome-shell is Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for gnome-shell is src:gnome-shell (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: [email protected]

Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version gnome-shell/3.26.2-3

Done: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>

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Report forwarded to [email protected], [email protected], Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#888610; Package gnome-shell. (Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:33:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Simon McVittie <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to [email protected], Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:33:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: gnome-shell: gdm greeter session sometimes exits 1: Can't initialize KMS backend: could not find drm kms device
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:29:12 +0000
Package: gnome-shell
Version: 3.26.2-3
Severity: normal
Tags: moreinfo
Control: submitter -1 [email protected]

(This is split out from the logs sent to gjs bug #888052, since it
appears to be an unrelated issue.)

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 at 16:02:19 +0100, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
> I do still see the issue at startup (I guess when the greeter is started):
>¯
> jan 27 10:13:47 sonata gnome-shell[1297]: Can't initialize KMS backend: could not find drm kms device
> jan 27 10:13:47 sonata gnome-session[1276]: gnome-session-binary[1276]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> jan 27 10:13:47 sonata gnome-session-binary[1276]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> jan 27 10:13:47 sonata gnome-session-binary[1276]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop

Am I right in thinking that immediately after this, gdm restarts the
greeter, and on this second attempt (or on a third or fourth attempt)
it works OK?

Does this have any practical effect on your use of gdm or GNOME, other
than delaying your first opportunity to log in?

Thanks,
    smcv

-- System Information:
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=888052#5



Changed Bug submitter to '[email protected]' from 'Simon McVittie <[email protected]>'. Request was from Simon McVittie <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:33:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#888610; Package gnome-shell. (Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:51:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Manuel Bilderbeek <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:51:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #12 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Manuel Bilderbeek <[email protected]>
To: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#888610: gnome-shell: gdm greeter session sometimes exits 1: Can't initialize KMS backend: could not find drm kms device
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 19:49:18 +0100
Hi,

On 27-01-18 19:29, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 at 16:02:19 +0100, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
>> I do still see the issue at startup (I guess when the greeter is started):
>> ¯
>> jan 27 10:13:47 sonata gnome-shell[1297]: Can't initialize KMS backend: could not find drm kms device
>> jan 27 10:13:47 sonata gnome-session[1276]: gnome-session-binary[1276]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
>> jan 27 10:13:47 sonata gnome-session-binary[1276]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
>> jan 27 10:13:47 sonata gnome-session-binary[1276]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop
> 
> Am I right in thinking that immediately after this, gdm restarts the
> greeter, and on this second attempt (or on a third or fourth attempt)
> it works OK?

I should take a better look, I'll let you know if it's different than this.

> Does this have any practical effect on your use of gdm or GNOME, other
> than delaying your first opportunity to log in?

So: no.

But the 'sometimes' isn't valid for me: this seems to happen all the 
time for me. (I.e.: it happened at every boot I checked the log for in 
the last couple of days.)

-- 
Kind regards,
Manuel



Reply sent to Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>:
You have taken responsibility. (Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:45:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to [email protected]:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:45:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #17 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: closing old GNOME Shell bugs
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:42:12 -0400
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 12 (or
with Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha



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