Help needed with nvidia config on gnome

codesupply · April 20, 2024, 2:15pm

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GNOME Session Crashes with Auto-Login

opened 10:16PM - 13 Nov 20 UTC

0.kind: bug 6.topic: GNOME 0.kind: regression

**Describe the bug** When booting up with autologin enabled the desktop becomes… briefly visible before GNOME crashes. I rebooted and got the same behaviour but logging in manually worked. **To Reproduce** 1. Boot system. 2. Provide disk encryption passowrd. **Expected behavior** The system boots to desktop. **Notify maintainers** @hedning @jtojnar @worldofpeace @dasj19 **Log** ``` Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea systemd[1045]: Reached target GNOME Session. Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea systemd[1045]: Reached target GNOME Wayland Session (session: gnome). Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea systemd[1045]: Reached target Current graphical user session. Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea systemd[1045]: Condition check resulted in GNOME Initial Setup being skipped. Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea systemd[1045]: Condition check resulted in GNOME Welcome Tour being skipped. Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea systemd[1045]: Starting GPaste daemon... Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea dbus-daemon[1052]: [session uid=1000 pid=1052] Activating service name='org.gnome.Shell.Screencast' requested by ':1.50' (uid=1000 pid=1434 comm="/nix/store/5fpcfnc687s44fq9qhcm6nz6gqn10msz-gnome-" label="kernel") Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea dbus-daemon[905]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.locale1' Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea systemd[1]: Started Locale Service. Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea dbus-daemon[1052]: [session uid=1000 pid=1052] Activating via systemd: service name='org.gtk.vfs.Metadata' unit='gvfs-metadata.service' requested by ':1.64' (uid=1000 pid=1714 comm="/nix/store/wysp2dm0k8rximd7fhfwfa28rq8xvgd5-m> Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea systemd[1045]: Starting Virtual filesystem metadata service... Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea .gsd-media-keys[1434]: Failed to grab accelerator for keybinding settings:playback-random Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea .gsd-media-keys[1434]: Failed to grab accelerator for keybinding settings:rfkill Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea .gsd-media-keys[1434]: Failed to grab accelerator for keybinding settings:hibernate Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea .gsd-media-keys[1434]: Failed to grab accelerator for keybinding settings:playback-repeat Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea .colord-wrapped[1617]: failed to get session [pid 1430]: No data available Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea dbus-daemon[1052]: [session uid=1000 pid=1052] Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.Metadata' Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea systemd[1045]: Started Virtual filesystem metadata service. Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea .colord-wrapped[1617]: failed to get session [pid 1430]: No data available Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea .colord-wrapped[1617]: failed to get session [pid 1430]: No data available Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea .geoclue-wrappe[1259]: Failed to query location: Forbidden Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea .gnome-shell-wr[1106]: Failed to launch ibus-daemon: Failed to execute child process “ibus-daemon” (No such file or directory) Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea systemd[1045]: Reached target GNOME session X11 services. Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea systemd[1045]: Starting GNOME XSettings service... Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea gnome-shell[1733]: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea gnome-shell[1733]: > Warning: Unsupported maximum keycode 569, clipping. Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea gnome-shell[1733]: > X11 cannot support keycodes above 255. Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea gnome-shell[1733]: > Warning: Unsupported high keycode 372 for name <I372> ignored Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea gnome-shell[1733]: > X11 cannot support keycodes above 255. Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea gnome-shell[1733]: > This warning only shows for the first high keycode. Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea gnome-shell[1733]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea systemd[1045]: Started GNOME XSettings service. Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea systemd[1045]: Reached target GNOME session X11 services. Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea .gpaste-daemon-[1668]: Failed to load module "colorreload-gtk-module" Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea gnome-shell[1227]: WARNING: Kernel has no file descriptor comparison support: Function not implemented Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea dbus-daemon[1052]: [session uid=1000 pid=1052] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Shell.Screencast' Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea .gnome-shell-wr[1106]: GNOME Shell started at Fri Nov 13 2020 17:04:19 GMT-0500 (EST) Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea .gnome-shell-wr[1106]: Registering session with GDM Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea dbus-daemon[1052]: [session uid=1000 pid=1052] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.GPaste' Nov 13 17:04:20 kevinidea systemd[1045]: Started GPaste daemon. Nov 13 17:04:21 kevinidea avahi-daemon[867]: Registering new address record for 2002:95f8:b674:1:4c76:1547:ffbf:a55e on enp0s20u1u3.*. Nov 13 17:04:21 kevinidea gnome-keyring-daemon[1055]: asked to register item /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login/64, but it's already registered Nov 13 17:04:21 kevinidea gdm-autologin][1040]: pam_unix(gdm-autologin:session): session closed for user kevincox Nov 13 17:04:21 kevinidea systemd[1045]: Stopped target GNOME Wayland Session (session: gnome). Nov 13 17:04:21 kevinidea systemd[1045]: Stopped target GNOME Session. ``` It isn't very clear what the source is but the following line is not present in the successful session and sounds related to autologin. ``` Nov 13 17:04:21 kevinidea gnome-keyring-daemon[1055]: asked to register item /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login/64, but it's already registered ``` **Metadata** Please run `nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"` and paste the result. - system: `"x86_64-linux"` - host os: `Linux 5.4.77, NixOS, 21.03pre251971.a371c107116 (Okapi)` - multi-user?: `yes` - sandbox: `yes` - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.3.8` - channels(kevincox): `""` - channels(root): `"nixos-21.03pre251971.a371c107116, nixpkgs-21.03pre251181.dd1b7e377f6"` - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos` Maintainer information: ```yaml module: services.xserver.desktopManager.gnome3 ```

I followed the workaround here: GNOME Session Crashes with Auto-Login · Issue #103746 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

…which ended up in my config for all my GUI-enabled machines here:

github.com

code-supply/code-supply/blob/9b226f4c3021acf5221a03d4bba877c512d7cb50/boxes/common/user.nix

{
  users.users.andrew = {
    isNormalUser = true;
    description = "Andrew Bruce";
    extraGroups = [
      "audio"
      "docker"
      "networkmanager"
      "wheel"
    ];
  };

  # Enable automatic login for the user.
  services.xserver.displayManager.autoLogin.enable = true;
  services.xserver.displayManager.autoLogin.user = "andrew";

  # Workaround for GNOME autologin: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/103746#issuecomment-945091229
  systemd.services."getty@tty1".enable = false;
  systemd.services."autovt@tty1".enable = false;
}

You can see the Nvidia machine’s config that references that one here:

github.com

code-supply/code-supply/blob/9b226f4c3021acf5221a03d4bba877c512d7cb50/boxes/fatty/default.nix

{ nix, nixpkgs, system, ... }:

nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
  inherit system;
  modules = [
    ../common/gui.nix
    ../common/locale.nix
    ../common/nix.nix
    ../common/steam.nix
    ../common/user.nix
    ./configuration.nix
    ./hardware-configuration.nix
    ./joycon.nix
    ({ nix.package = nix; })
    ./nvidia.nix
    ./steam-console.nix
    ./system76.nix
  ];
}