It’s been going on for several weeks but since I prefer KDE I didn’t spend much time on the problem. Whenever I try to login to GNOME I get an error screen about an unrecoverable error that is probably caused by one of the extensions. It suggests to disable them and try agein. I turn all of them off but no use.
I go back to KDE and check out /var/log/messages. I hereby present the relevant lines
root@pascalinux:/home/pascal #cat m
Apr 25 22:00:40 pascalinux systemd-logind[912]: New session 17 of user pascal.
Apr 25 22:00:40 pascalinux systemd-logind[912]: Linked /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 to /run/user/pascal/X11-display.
Apr 25 22:00:40 pascalinux checkproc: checkproc: can not get session id for process 2056!
Apr 25 22:00:40 pascalinux gnome-session[5983]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /home/pascal/.config/autostart/xfce4-settings-helper-autostart.desktop: Key file does not have key 'Name'
Apr 25 22:00:40 pascalinux gnome-session[5983]: WARNING: could not read /home/pascal/.config/autostart/xfce4-settings-helper-autostart.desktop
Apr 25 22:00:40 pascalinux gnome-session[5983]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /home/pascal/.config/autostart/xfconf-migration-4.6.desktop: Key file does not have key 'Name'
Apr 25 22:00:40 pascalinux gnome-session[5983]: WARNING: could not read /home/pascal/.config/autostart/xfconf-migration-4.6.desktop
Apr 25 22:00:41 pascalinux dbus-daemon[963]: **** /proc/self/mountinfo changed
Apr 25 22:00:44 pascalinux pulseaudio[6117]: [pulseaudio] module.c: module-combine is deprecated: Please use module-combine-sink instead of module-combine!
Apr 25 22:00:44 pascalinux pulseaudio[6117]: [pulseaudio] module-combine.c: We will now load module-combine-sink. Please make sure to remove module-combine from your configuration.
Apr 25 22:00:44 pascalinux dbus-daemon[963]: dbus[963]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
Apr 25 22:00:44 pascalinux dbus[963]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
Apr 25 22:00:44 pascalinux dbus-daemon[963]: (packagekitd:6132): PackageKit-Zypp-DEBUG: zypp_backend_initialize
Apr 25 22:00:44 pascalinux dbus[963]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Apr 25 22:00:44 pascalinux dbus-daemon[963]: dbus[963]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Apr 25 22:00:44 pascalinux dbus-daemon[963]: dbus[963]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.ColorManager' (using servicehelper)
Apr 25 22:00:44 pascalinux dbus[963]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.ColorManager' (using servicehelper)
Apr 25 22:00:44 pascalinux dbus[963]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.ColorManager'
Apr 25 22:00:44 pascalinux dbus-daemon[963]: dbus[963]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.ColorManager'
Apr 25 22:00:45 pascalinux dbus-daemon[963]: (colord:6143): Cd-WARNING **: CdMain: failed to emit ProfileAdded: failed to register object: An object is already exported for the interface org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Profile at /org/freedesktop/ColorManager/profiles/icc_884d2a80d859873927528bb25654b1b6
Apr 25 22:00:45 pascalinux dbus-daemon[963]: (colord:6143): Cd-WARNING **: CdMain: failed to emit ProfileAdded: failed to register object: An object is already exported for the interface org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Profile at /org/freedesktop/ColorManager/profiles/icc_c92c9b7a677cc2839faa79677a084919
Apr 25 22:00:46 pascalinux gnome-session[5983]: WARNING: Unable to parse command from 'file:///etc/xdg/autostart/synaptiks_init_config.desktop': Key file contains key 'Terminal' which has value that cannot be interpreted.
Apr 25 22:00:46 pascalinux gnome-session[5983]: WARNING: Failed to start app: Unable to start application: Key file contains key 'Terminal' which has value that cannot be interpreted.
Apr 25 22:00:47 pascalinux pulseaudio[6219]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Apr 25 22:00:50 pascalinux goa[6264]: goa-daemon version 3.2.1 starting [main.c:112, main()]
Apr 25 22:00:54 pascalinux gnome-session[5983]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly
Apr 25 22:01:05 pascalinux dbus-daemon[963]: (packagekitd:6132): PackageKit-Zypp-DEBUG: zypp_backend_destroy
Apr 25 22:02:34 pascalinux systemd-logind[912]: Removed session 17.
Apr 25 22:02:34 pascalinux dbus-daemon[963]: **** /proc/self/mountinfo changed
Apr 25 22:02:34 pascalinux acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Apr 25 22:02:54 pascalinux pulseaudio[6117]: [pulseaudio] module-rygel-media-server.c: Failed to release service name org.gnome.UPnP.MediaServer2.PulseAudio: Connection is closed
root@pascalinux:/home/pascal #
Any ideas please? Thank you very much in advance.
- pascal