Hi

I have a new LFS/BLFS system with gnome 3.35.3. Gnome fails to start with Gdm or Lightdm. GDM gives me a black screen with blinking cursor which I can ALT-F12 out of and Lightdm gives me a login window, which after password terminates to 'OPTS something went wrong etc'

The journal gives me the failure:

Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger gnome-shell[3904]: Execution of main.js threw exception: Script <main> threw an exception
Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3753]: (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-2: disconnected
Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3753]: (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-2: Internal DisplayPort
Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3753]: (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-2: 1440.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3753]: (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):
Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3753]: (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-3: disconnected
Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3753]: (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-3: Internal TMDS
Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3753]: (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-3: 165.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3753]: (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):
Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger systemd[3718]: Started Sound Service.
-- Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailma.../systemd-devel
--
-- A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully.
--
-- The job identifier is 64.
Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger gnome-shell[3904]: clutter_input_device_get_device_type: assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_INPUT_DEVICE (device)' failed
Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger gnome-shell[3904]: clutter_input_device_get_device_type: assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_INPUT_DEVICE (device)' failed
Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger gnome-shell[3904]: JS ERROR: Error: Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GDesktopEnums', version '3.0' not found
@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/environment.js:13:53
@<main>:1:1
Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger gnome-shell[3904]: Execution of main.js threw exception: Script <main> threw an exception
Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger systemd[3718]: gnome-shell-x11.service: Failed with result 'protocol'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailma.../systemd-devel
--
-- The unit UNIT has entered the 'failed' state with result 'protocol'.
Mar 19 22:22:06 cliffhanger systemd[3718]: Failed to start GNOME Shell on X11.
-- Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailma.../systemd-devel
--
-- A start job for unit UNIT has finished with a failure.

The Clutter failure seems significant, but I can find no answers elsewhere. I have downgraded the Nvidia driver thinking this maybe the culprit, but the problem remains. I am thinking of upgrading gnome to 3.36.0, but have no confidence that this would cure the problem.

Does anyone have any ideas here?

thanks

Cliff

Hi

Right. The key to this whole problem related to the error:

'Typelib file for namespace 'GDesktopEnums', version '3.0' not found'

I found there was a text file called 'GDesktopEnums-3.0.typelib' which contains introspection data for for GSettings desktop-wide schemas.

It should be present under '/usr/lib/girepository-1.0' but was not present on my build! Why? Can't answer that.

Installed the latest 'gsettings-desktop-schemas' and voila, the system booted into gnome first time.

Cliff

One of the main reasons for a missing file is simply forgetting to do make install.

Please mark this thread as SOLVED