cosmic-greeter fails to start after latest update on Arch Linux.

[coatlessali]

A bunch of things broke for me after the update to Alpha 2. The first big one is that cosmic-greeter no longer starts and leaves me at my monitors with no signal.

cosmic-greeter.log

If there are any other logs I can provide to help narrow the issue down, let me know.

[jewstan83]

I'm getting a similar issue but it hangs at 'Target Reached Graphical Interface'

Likewise, whatever logs are necessary, please let me know.

[travis-aaron]

I was getting the same issue.

journalctl -b -u cosmic-greeter was showing a complaint from PAM that cosmic-greeter service was not found.

The other issue I faced after upgrading was cosmic-launcher no longer launching apps, but when I reinstalled GDM and enabled it this issue also went away.

[maxtremblay]

Similar issue here. Both with cosmic-greeter and the launcher. I am using archlinux.

I tried the command systemctl enable cosmic-greeter.service without success.

❯ journalctl -b -u cosmic-greeter

Sep 27 10:04:04 nq-maxime systemd[1]: Started COSMIC Greeter.
Sep 27 10:04:04 nq-maxime greetd[566]: config: Config { file: ConfigFile { terminal: ConfigTerminal { vt: Specific(1), switch: true }, general: ConfigGeneral { source_profile: true, runfile: "/run/greetd.run", service: "cosmic-gr
eeter" }, default_session: ConfigSession { command: "cosmic-comp systemd-cat -t cosmic-greeter cosmic-greeter", user: "cosmic-greeter", service: "greetd-greeter" }, initial_session: None }, internal: ConfigInternal { session_work
er: 0 } }
Sep 27 10:04:04 nq-maxime greetd[566]: error: PAM 'cosmic-greeter' service missing
Sep 27 10:04:04 nq-maxime systemd[1]: cosmic-greeter.service: Deactivated successfully.
Sep 27 10:04:05 nq-maxime systemd[1]: cosmic-greeter.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Sep 27 10:04:05 nq-maxime systemd[1]: Started COSMIC Greeter.
Sep 27 10:04:05 nq-maxime greetd[597]: config: Config { file: ConfigFile { terminal: ConfigTerminal { vt: Specific(1), switch: true }, general: ConfigGeneral { source_profile: true, runfile: "/run/greetd.run", service: "cosmic-gr
eeter" }, default_session: ConfigSession { command: "cosmic-comp systemd-cat -t cosmic-greeter cosmic-greeter", user: "cosmic-greeter", service: "greetd-greeter" }, initial_session: None }, internal: ConfigInternal { session_work
er: 0 } }
Sep 27 10:04:05 nq-maxime greetd[597]: error: PAM 'cosmic-greeter' service missing
Sep 27 10:04:05 nq-maxime systemd[1]: cosmic-greeter.service: Deactivated successfully.
Sep 27 10:04:06 nq-maxime systemd[1]: cosmic-greeter.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Sep 27 10:04:06 nq-maxime systemd[1]: Started COSMIC Greeter.
Sep 27 10:04:06 nq-maxime greetd[599]: config: Config { file: ConfigFile { terminal: ConfigTerminal { vt: Specific(1), switch: true }, general: ConfigGeneral { source_profile: true, runfile: "/run/greetd.run", service: "cosmic-gr
eeter" }, default_session: ConfigSession { command: "cosmic-comp systemd-cat -t cosmic-greeter cosmic-greeter", user: "cosmic-greeter", service: "greetd-greeter" }, initial_session: None }, internal: ConfigInternal { session_work
er: 0 } }
Sep 27 10:04:06 nq-maxime greetd[599]: error: PAM 'cosmic-greeter' service missing
Sep 27 10:04:06 nq-maxime systemd[1]: cosmic-greeter.service: Deactivated successfully.
Sep 27 10:04:07 nq-maxime systemd[1]: cosmic-greeter.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Sep 27 10:04:07 nq-maxime systemd[1]: Started COSMIC Greeter.
Sep 27 10:04:07 nq-maxime greetd[611]: config: Config { file: ConfigFile { terminal: ConfigTerminal { vt: Specific(1), switch: true }, general: ConfigGeneral { source_profile: true, runfile: "/run/greetd.run", service: "cosmic-gr
eeter" }, default_session: ConfigSession { command: "cosmic-comp systemd-cat -t cosmic-greeter cosmic-greeter", user: "cosmic-greeter", service: "greetd-greeter" }, initial_session: None }, internal: ConfigInternal { session_work
er: 0 } }
Sep 27 10:04:07 nq-maxime greetd[611]: error: PAM 'cosmic-greeter' service missing
Sep 27 10:04:07 nq-maxime systemd[1]: cosmic-greeter.service: Deactivated successfully.
Sep 27 10:04:09 nq-maxime systemd[1]: cosmic-greeter.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4.
Sep 27 10:04:09 nq-maxime systemd[1]: Started COSMIC Greeter.
Sep 27 10:04:09 nq-maxime greetd[615]: config: Config { file: ConfigFile { terminal: ConfigTerminal { vt: Specific(1), switch: true }, general: ConfigGeneral { source_profile: true, runfile: "/run/greetd.run", service: "cosmic-gr
eeter" }, default_session: ConfigSession { command: "cosmic-comp systemd-cat -t cosmic-greeter cosmic-greeter", user: "cosmic-greeter", service: "greetd-greeter" }, initial_session: None }, internal: ConfigInternal { session_work
er: 0 } }
Sep 27 10:04:09 nq-maxime greetd[615]: error: PAM 'cosmic-greeter' service missing
Sep 27 10:04:09 nq-maxime systemd[1]: cosmic-greeter.service: Deactivated successfully.
Sep 27 10:04:10 nq-maxime systemd[1]: cosmic-greeter.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Sep 27 10:04:10 nq-maxime systemd[1]: cosmic-greeter.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Sep 27 10:04:10 nq-maxime systemd[1]: cosmic-greeter.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
Sep 27 10:04:10 nq-maxime systemd[1]: Failed to start COSMIC Greeter.

[jackpot51]

I believe the packaging for Arch Linux is missing the cosmic-greeter PAM service and this should be submitted there.

[jackpot51]

Arch Linux packaging bug: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/cosmic-greeter/-/issues/4