OpenIndiana Distribution

Hi Jon

Thank you so much for looking into this so quickly.
I am unable to login no matter which user I use.
Also strangely after opening the .xsession_errors file with nano when connected via putty, nano goes very strange, and when I do Ctrl-x to exit instead ^x appears in the text on screen and then I hit enter I can get out but if I try to load nano again I get- Sorry, Malloc not ready
I know its a separate issue which I'll log but just wondering if it has any relation.

I have attached a screen shot of the screen after i enter the username and hit return.

Here is a copy of my xsession_error file, i dont know what all this means so hopefully you'll understand it better.

/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/usr/bin/stat: cannot stat `/dev/audio': No such file or directory
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- gnome-session
_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/var/tmp/keyring-MCod2G
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=1341
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/var/tmp/keyring-MCod2G
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/var/tmp/keyring-MCod2G
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-MCod2G/ssh

• (gnome-settings-daemon:1344): WARNING **: Call to screen_info_new is too frequent, skipping...

• (gnome-settings-daemon:1344): WARNING **: Call to screen_info_new is too frequent, skipping...

• (gnome-settings-daemon:1344): WARNING **: Call to screen_info_new is too frequent, skipping...
  /usr/bin/dispswitch exiting: too few (less than 2) or too many (more than 2) crtcs: 1

• (nwam-manager:1350): WARNING **: nwam_walk_ncps Insufficient permissions for action

• (nwam-manager:1350): WARNING **: nwam_walk_locs Insufficient permissions for action

• (nwam-manager:1350): WARNING **: nwam_walk_enms Insufficient permissions for action

• (nwam-manager:1350): WARNING **: nwam_walk_known_wlans unknown error

• (gnome-settings-daemon:1344): WARNING **: Call to screen_info_new is too frequent, skipping...
  Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
  system-config-printer-applet: failed to start NewPrinterNotification service
• Message: Initializing gksu extension...

• (gnome-power-manager:1351): WARNING **: DBUS error: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.ScreenSaver': no such name
• (gnome-power-manager:1351): DEBUG: proxy is NULL, maybe the daemon responsible for org.gnome.ScreenSaver is not running?
  Xlib: extension "DPMS" missing on display "::1:1.0".

• (gnome-power-manager:1351): WARNING **: ERROR: Caller doesn't possess required privilege to change the governor: Syslog might give more information

• (gnome-settings-daemon:1344): WARNING **: Call to screen_info_new is too frequent, skipping...
  glibtop: open (/proc/1436/cred): No such file or directory
  glibtop: open (/proc/1436/xmap): No such file or directory
  glibtop: open (/proc/1436/xmap): No such file or directory
  glibtop: open (/proc/1436/cred): No such file or directory
  glibtop: open (/proc/1436/xmap): No such file or directory
  glibtop: open (/proc/1436/xmap): No such file or directory
  glibtop: open (/proc/1436/cred): No such file or directory
  glibtop: open (/proc/1436/xmap): No such file or directory
  glibtop: open (/proc/1436/xmap): No such file or directory

• (gnome-power-preferences:1669): WARNING **: DBUS error: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.ScreenSaver': no such name
• (gnome-power-preferences:1669): DEBUG: proxy is NULL, maybe the daemon responsible for org.gnome.ScreenSaver is not running?

(gnome-power-preferences:1669): GModule-CRITICAL **: file gmodule.c: line 619: assertion `symbol_name != NULL' failed

(gnome-power-preferences:1669): libglade-WARNING **: could not find widget creation function

• (gnome-power-manager:1351): WARNING **: ERROR: Caller doesn't possess required privilege to change the governor: Syslog might give more information
• (gnome-power-preferences:1669): DEBUG: already disconnected from org.gnome.ScreenSaver
  Window manager warning: Fatal IO error 131 (Connection reset by peer) on display '::1:1.0'.
  gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 131 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ::1:1.0.
  The application 'nwam-manager' lost its connection to the display ::1:1.0;
  most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
  the application.

So after gnome-cleanup you are able to login, aren't you? What is "busted" on your setup today?

John Sloan wrote:

Hi Milan,

You are absolutely correct. After running 'gnome-cleanup' for root as well as admin, I am now able to login to the console of the server (in front of keyboard).

Good to now. Gnome has problems with updates from time to time and cleanup is only safe way in such cases. Sorry.

I am truly greatful for your help.

What I mean by 'busted' is that other things on my gnome enviroment I have just noticed are not working anymore.

Nautilus for one, now it cannot handle any locations outside of the local machine so, ssh:// sftp:// ftp:// smb:// etc all fail with 'nautilus cannot handle xxx locations' or it trys to open /home/admin/ssh etc, or connect to server causes an error that says, 'Cannot connect to server you must provide a name for the server'

Are you speaking about 2 different issues or not? I know about https://www.illumos.org/issues/4058 and not about other ssh issues.

None of these errors occurred before the update.

I'm also finding that my zfs send recieve now keeps failing half way through with a broken pipe caused by mbuffer. also only since the update.

I am not sure how this is connected to Gnome.

So I hope you can understand my frustration.

Maybe but the key problem is that only one person (I) work on Gnome/JDS in OI and nobody was working on it for a year before me, so do not be surprised there are issues after the first bigger update of OI JDS from 2010.

Fill separate bugs for your issues if they are not documented yet. This one I am closing as closed after gnome-cleanup.