Debian :: GDM Constantly Attempting To Login?
Oct 19, 2010
I setup Debian a few days ago and everything was working fine. On a routine reboot to test a start-up script I turned the monitor on and realized that I could not logon to the machine locally. None of my keyboard input was making it to the username field but random things were happening. Every now and then it would say stuff like incorrect username or spontaneously jump to the password input field and then say incorrect password. I've rebooted a couple times, even without a keyboard attatched and still am seeing this. In /var/log/auth.log I show gdm going nuts trying to validate usernames.
Oct 18 12:15:16 Eva gdm[3287]: pam_nologin(gdm:auth): cannot determine username
Oct 18 12:15:16 Eva gdm[3287]: pam_nologin(gdm:auth): cannot determine username
Oct 18 12:15:16 Eva gdm[3287]: pam_nologin(gdm:auth): cannot determine username
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Jul 2, 2011
I have an Acer Travelmate 630(14.1" model) running Ubuntu 11.04 and I have experienced a frequent amount of freezing. Usually when I log in, the login sound effect doesn't play, the cursor turns into a wheel which changes back to the normal cursor, then changes into the wheel, but frozen. At this point the computer has completely frozen, nothing moving, no input of any kind responisive, and I have to hard reboot. Several times after that the problem goes away and I am able to log in and use it normally. I also experienced freezing when loading up Ubuntu Software Centre and using Firefox.
Sometimes after leaving it for a while, the problem is gone, but after an hour or two completely freezes again. Everything on the machine is stock, apart from upgraded 1GB RAM and 60GB HDD. And I use an external monitor because the internal one has a damaged cable(replacement coming soon). Are there anyways I can track down the problem? I have already uninstalled compiz and am running Ubuntu Classic mode. I am happy to downgrade to 9.04 as that is compatible with my USB WiFi adaptor without doing complex stuff, but would like to solve the problem on 11.04.
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processor: 0
vendor_id: GenuineIntel
cpu family: 6
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command:/usr/bin/x :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
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So I'm having troublesome issues with Debian 8.2, one of them being really costly to my productivity. This issue started maybe a month or so back, and has been continuing since. Laptop is a Toshiba C50-B-14D
During every freeze all those happen:
Screen freezes (The whole display becomes frozen, with only cursor movement - Time displayed stays frozen too)No keyboard input (even Cap & Num Lock leds will not dim once pressed)Power button (pressing once will do nothing - I have to hold for an unhealthy shutdown and reboot)Touchpad Input Works (Cursor responses to movement only, clicks/change on-hover do not.) Fans become quiet
Today at 11:46, it happened while just running Chromium. At the time:
*XFCE4 Power Management Plugin
Presentation Mode [on]
Charger was connected
Here is the syslog (I know this isn't useful as it doesn't show what's causing the issue) the freeze happened at 11:46 and 11:57 is when I rebooted back into debian.
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Oct 30 08:31:01 Badook rtkit-daemon[1315]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Oct 30 08:31:01 Badook pulseaudio[1364]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Oct 30 08:41:09 Badook kernel: [Â 727.002897] perf interrupt took too long (2502 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000
Oct 30 08:42:02 Badook pulseaudio[1312]: [alsa-sink-ALC233 Analog] alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write!
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I also started noticing an INFO rcu message during startup:
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Oct 29 14:39:33 Badook kernel: [Â Â 0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.
Oct 29 14:39:33 Badook kernel: [Â Â 0.000000] Â Â RCU dyntick-idle grace-period acceleration is enabled.
Oct 29 14:39:33 Badook kernel: [Â Â 0.000000] Â Â RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=512 to nr_cpu_ids=2.
Oct 29 14:39:33 Badook kernel: [Â Â 0.000000] RCU: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=16, nr_cpu_ids=2
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How can I diagnose what is causing it to unmount?
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