Gnome 3 broken/will not start

[digger86]

This was working but I was trying to remove a logical volume that was home for /usr. I had remove my swap logical volume first so that I could add some of the space to the root logical volume. Once I had enough space on root I copied all /usr files over to root.

Now when I boot my display stops at the init sequence (I think it is the init sequence?). It stops at the bottom of what this file boot.log shows. I have a mouse prompt and I can move it but no more then that. I have access to all virtual terminals.



Thanks


P.S. Why do I have to shorten my posts? I get the error "Post denied. New posts are limited by number of URLs it may contain and checked if it doesn't contain forbidden words." if I do not.


edit, added because of the "Post denied error"

$ startx
xauth:  file /home/digger/.serverauth.2093 does not exist


Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
	If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
	and start again.


Please consult the Fedora Project support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help.
$ su -
Password: 
# rm /tmp/.X0-lock 
rm: remove regular file `/tmp/.X0-lock'? yes
# exit
$ startx
xauth:  file /home/digger/.serverauth.2140 does not exist

_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
Warning: Xalloc: requesting unpleasantly large amount of memory: 0 bytes.

Fatal server error:
Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running

Please consult the Fedora Project support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[  5043.893] _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
[  5043.893] _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
[  5043.893] Warning: Xalloc: requesting unpleasantly large amount of memory: 0 bytes.
[  5043.893]
Fatal server error:
[  5043.893] Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running
[  5043.893]
Please consult the Fedora Project support
         at http://wiki.x.org
 for help.
[  5043.893] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[  5043.893]
[  5043.894] Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

[george_toolan]

P.S. Why do I have to shorten my posts?

Spam spam spam baked beans and spam ;-)

Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running

It doesn't work like that. There's already an X server running. Try

startx -- :1

[digger86]

george_toolan, thanks for trying to help out.

I did

$ startx -- :1

and all I got was a black screen with a mouse pointer.

# cat /var/log/messages | tail -n 21
Aug 30 07:37:22 big-kahuna ck-xinit-session: error connecting to console-kit
Aug 30 07:37:23 big-kahuna gnome-session[1067]: WARNING: Session 'gnome' runnable check failed: Exited with code 1
Aug 30 07:37:23 big-kahuna gnome-session[1067]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name
Aug 30 07:37:23 big-kahuna gnome-session[1067]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name
Aug 30 07:37:24 big-kahuna pulseaudio[1203]: module-console-kit.c: GetSessionsForUnixUser() call failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service files
Aug 30 07:37:24 big-kahuna pulseaudio[1203]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-console-kit" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Aug 30 07:37:24 big-kahuna pulseaudio[1203]: main.c: Module load failed.
Aug 30 07:37:24 big-kahuna pulseaudio[1203]: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
Aug 30 07:37:25 big-kahuna kernel: [84580.625889] gnome-settings-[1193] trap invalid opcode ip:331ee4f800 sp:7ffff02ca668 error:0 in libfreetype.so.6.7.1[331ee00000+99000]
Aug 30 07:37:25 big-kahuna gnome-session[1067]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' killed by signal
Aug 30 07:37:54 big-kahuna kernel: [84610.205125] gnome-panel[1212] trap invalid opcode ip:331ee4f800 sp:7fff43fe0358 error:0 in libfreetype.so.6.7.1[331ee00000+99000]
Aug 30 07:37:54 big-kahuna gnome-session[1067]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-panel.desktop' killed by signal
Aug 30 07:38:25 big-kahuna kernel: [84641.049986] gnome-sound-app[1229] trap invalid opcode ip:331ee4f800 sp:7fff74196568 error:0 in libfreetype.so.6.7.1[331ee00000+99000]
Aug 30 07:38:25 big-kahuna pulseaudio[1263]: module-console-kit.c: GetSessionsForUnixUser() call failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service files
Aug 30 07:38:25 big-kahuna pulseaudio[1263]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-console-kit" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Aug 30 07:38:25 big-kahuna pulseaudio[1263]: main.c: Module load failed.
Aug 30 07:38:25 big-kahuna pulseaudio[1263]: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
Aug 30 07:38:25 big-kahuna pulseaudio[1261]: main.c: Daemon startup failed.
Aug 30 07:38:26 big-kahuna kernel: [84642.076050] nautilus[1218] trap invalid opcode ip:331ee4f800 sp:7fffe28be898 error:0 in libfreetype.so.6.7.1[331ee00000+99000]
Aug 30 07:40:26 big-kahuna kernel: [84761.698582] notification-da[1225] trap invalid opcode ip:331ee4f800 sp:7ffff07b9a18 error:0 in libfreetype.so.6.7.1[331ee00000+99000]
Aug 30 07:44:06 big-kahuna systemd-logind[1535]: New session 28 of user root.

[LongTimeDabbler]

This was working but I was trying to remove a logical volume that was home for /usr. I had remove my swap logical volume first so that I could add some of the space to the root logical volume. Once I had enough space on root I copied all /usr files over to root.

Sounds like a sure recipe for screwing up all the paths on your system. A place for everything and everything in its place. I can't imagine something like this working.

[digger86]

LongTimeDabbler, is your comment suppose to help? How do I "unscrew" it?

I at least made backups of everything, and the only thing that appears to be broken is the GUI.

I was trying to fix the below issue

# dmesg | grep usr
[   15.078190] systemd[1]: /usr appears to be on its own filesytem and is not already mounted. This is not a supported setup. Some things will probably break (sometimes even silently) in mysterious ways. Consult http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken for more information.

I removed the lv for swap so that I could free up some space, then copied the /usr lv to the /usr directory in the rootfs. Commented out the mount point for /usr in /etc/fstab and reboot. But no GUI :-(

[LongTimeDabbler]

I removed the lv for swap so that I could free up some space, then copied the /usr lv to the /usr directory in the rootfs. Commented out the mount point for /usr in /etc/fstab and reboot. But no GUI :-(


OK - I guess I didn't follow you correctly. I had thought you had done something that would have altered that paths of everything under /usr. So based on what you say here all the paths should be the same. Dumb question but you don't have something like /usr/usr/foo instead of /usr/foo?

"... then copied the /usr lv to the /usr directory in the rootfs"

[digger86]

no its not a dumb question, I would hate to go through trouble shooting to find such a simple mistake

[root@big-kahuna ~]# ls -l /
total 118
dr-xr-xr-x.   2 root root  4096 Aug 29 09:42 bin
dr-xr-xr-x.   6 root root  1024 Jul 14 12:33 boot
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root  4096 Mar  3  2011 cgroup
drwxr-xr-x.  20 root root  3940 Aug 30 12:36 dev
drwxr-xr-x. 140 root root 12288 Aug 30 12:34 etc
drwxr-xr-x.   4 root root  4096 Jul 29  2011 home
dr-xr-xr-x.  14 root root  4096 Jun 25 13:12 lib
dr-xr-xr-x.  13 root root 16384 Aug 29 09:42 lib64
drwx------.   2 root root 16384 Jan 24  2012 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root    40 Aug 30 12:34 media
drwxr-xr-x.   3 root root  4096 Jul 14 22:02 mnt
drwxr-xr-x.   3 root root  4096 Jul 29  2011 opt
dr-xr-xr-x. 208 root root     0 Aug 30 05:33 proc
dr-xr-x---.  22 root root  4096 Aug 30 12:21 root
drwxr-xr-x.  32 root root  1140 Aug 30 12:34 run
dr-xr-xr-x.   2 root root 12288 Aug 29 09:42 sbin
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root  4096 Jul 29  2011 srv
dr-xr-xr-x.  13 root root     0 Aug 30 12:34 sys
drwxrwxrwt.  14 root root 20480 Aug 30 12:34 tmp
drwxr-xr-x.  15 root root  4096 Jun 26 00:59 usr
drwxr-xr-x.  18 root root  4096 Jun 24 12:20 var
[root@big-kahuna ~]# ls -l /usr
total 220
dr-xr-xr-x.   2 root root 57344 Aug 29 09:42 bin
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root  4096 Jul 29  2011 etc
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root  4096 Jul 29  2011 games
drwxr-xr-x.   5 root root  4096 Jul 14 12:31 include
dr-xr-xr-x.  50 root root 20480 Jun 30 11:57 lib
dr-xr-xr-x. 153 root root 73728 Aug 29 09:42 lib64
drwxr-xr-x.  27 root root 12288 Aug 29 09:42 libexec
drwxr-xr-x.  13 root root  4096 Jul 29  2011 local
drwx------.   2 root root  4096 Jan 24  2012 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x.   9 root root  4096 Jan 25  2012 NX
dr-xr-xr-x.   2 root root 12288 Aug 29 09:42 sbin
drwxr-xr-x. 293 root root 12288 Jul 14 12:42 share
drwxr-xr-x.   4 root root  4096 Jul 29  2011 src
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root root    10 Jun 24 11:50 tmp -> ../var/tmp
[root@big-kahuna ~]# mount -l | grep usr
[root@big-kahuna ~]#

[LongTimeDabbler]

http://www.finkproject.org/doc/x11/trouble.php
(This is mac related but might still be helpful)

_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
Fatal server error:
Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already
running
Class: Fatal. This can happen when you accidentally run several instances of XDarwin at once, or maybe after an unclean shutdown (i.e. crash) of XDarwin. It might also be a file permission problem with the sockets for local connections. You can try to clean that up with rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix. Restarting the computer also helps in most cases (Mac OS X automatically cleans up /tmp when it boots, and the network stack is reset).

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