Closed gabriel4649 closed 4 months ago
What happens when you try to restart io.elementary.cerbere.desktop
?
Maybe run it with debugging enabled?
https://elementary.io/docs/code/os-dev#retrieving-logs
Did you do anything that might have caused this issue?
I'm running a fairly new and standard installation, I don't think it is because of a mod or anything.
Unfortunately, I have another issue where virtual consoles are not working, so I can't do anything when this happens other than turn my laptop off.
I added export G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all
to my.profile
but saw no effect, not sure how to enable debug messages.
not sure how to enable debug messages. Like this:
G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all io.elementary.cerbere.desktop
If that was unclear we have some work to do on that OS Dev page ;)
But you've added a lot of useful logs already.
The "TInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1" seems interesting. I'm getting some leads, like: https://iwf1.com/quick-fix-invalid-mit-magic-cookie-1-sudo https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2392377
For the docs, the ./Application
wasn't very clear. Maybe you can add an example.
I've updated my .profile
with the proper variableG_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all io.elementary.cerbere.desktop
If I get something new, I will comment again.
Thanks I'll try that.
Wait, why are u editing your .profile
? That shouldn't be needed?
Where do you recommend putting the env variables?
If you need to set them globally by default in files like .profile
or .bashrc
, but in this case you only want to set this for this one application so you just set it specifically for this application, by putting it in front of running it.
G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all io.elementary.cerbere.desktop
So this runs io.elementary.cerbere.desktop
, with G_MESSAGES_DEBUG
environment variable set to all
.
I've tried clarifying the OS dev page. https://github.com/elementary/website/pull/2222 Couldn't really find a good environmental variables source that also explains the inline thing.
Thanks! One more thing I discovered. I switched to GDM and the issue is no longer present.
See also comments to elementary/triage#407
I worked around this by creating two custom keyboard shortcuts. One to start wingpanel and one to start plank. The associated commands were simply wingpanel
and plank
. The fact that this works suggests that the problem may be with cerbere since that program is supposed to keep wingpanel and plank running.
Closing because the issue is stale.
Not sure if this is a Gala issue or a Cerebere issue. I think the following is relevant to this issue:
This is probably also useful: