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0000378AlmaLinux-9-OTHERpublic2023-03-10 07:42
Reporterjcho Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeveritycrashReproducibilityalways
Status newResolutionopen 
Summary0000378: startx will launch gnome however gnome will fail with "Something has gone wrong" message if you run anything.
Descriptionstartx will launch gnome but a click on the desktop, it will crash and present screen to log out.

After review logs via

journalctl | grep gnome

Mar 10 08:24:14 station114.example.com org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Subscription.desktop[3104]: Failed to start: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable
Mar 10 08:24:14 station114.example.com gnome-session[2600]: gnome-session-binary[2600]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Subscription.desktop' exited with code 1
Mar 10 08:24:14 station114.example.com gnome-session-binary[2600]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Subscription.desktop' exited with code 1
Mar 10 08:24:14 station114.example.com gnome-session-binary[2600]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Subscription.desktop' respawning too quickly
Mar 10 08:24:14 station114.example.com gnome-session[2600]: gnome-session-binary[2600]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Subscription.desktop' respawning too quickly
Mar 10 08:24:14 station114.example.com gnome-session-binary[2600]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Subscription.desktop
 
org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Subscription.service looks suspicious.

 So make changes to disable it

/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Subscription.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=GNOME subscription management
Exec=/usr/libexec/gsd-subman
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;
NoDisplay=true
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization
X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true
X-GNOME-AutoRestart=false
X-GNOME-HiddenUnderSystemd=true
 

startx will not crash anymore
Steps To Reproducego to multi-user mode (runlevel 3 ) then run startx
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Date Modified Username Field Change
2023-03-10 07:42 jcho New Issue