Too often, when I attempt to login on Gnome 3.28.2 (Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Bionic Beaver (fresh install, but old home account recopied)), once the password is entered, the login window remains there, hanging. Nothing happens for minutes.
I then have to switch to a console and 'kill -9 '. This is not good publicity when this happens in front of my Windows and Mac friends.
In the best scenario, I get in after 5s. Why is it now instantly? I searched /var/log/syslog for clues, but I cannot find any. Sure there are plenty of gnome-shell errors, but none that seams related to my login problem.
Obviously, I want a solution to my problem. But I also want to learn how one can go to investigate the source of the problem. Which log file should I look into? How do I enable tracing in Gnome?
My hardware is a 'HP Elitebook Folio 9470m' equipped with an Intel GPU but I do not believe that this is relevant.
The gnome extensions I have installed are the following. One thing bizarre is that I disabled many of them, but the state does not seam to be saved. Next kill-9 gnome-shell
I perform, the extensions return enabled. Seams like the only way to have the extensions state save is to logout?
drwxrwxr-x 3 hans hans 4096 May 20 2018 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 3 hans hans 4096 May 25 2018 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 7 hans hans 4096 May 23 2018 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 4 hans hans 4096 May 23 2018 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 4 hans hans 4096 May 23 2018 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 4 hans hans 4096 Feb 12 02:59 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 4 hans hans 4096 Nov 6 07:56 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 6 hans hans 4096 Feb 21 18:17 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 2 hans hans 4096 May 21 2018 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 4 hans hans 4096 May 23 2018 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 4 hans hans 4096 Nov 28 01:28 gTile@vibou
drwxrwxr-x 2 hans hans 4096 Nov 7 06:16 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 4 hans hans 4096 Jun 22 2018 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 3 hans hans 4096 May 23 2018 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 2 hans hans 4096 Feb 4 06:11 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 2 hans hans 4096 May 25 2018 [email protected]@gmail.com
drwxrwxr-x 4 hans hans 4096 Feb 4 06:11 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 5 hans hans 4096 Nov 14 07:57 [email protected]
drwxrwxr-x 3 hans hans 4096 May 23 2018 [email protected]
ls -al ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
. Edit all output into your question please. , 2) create a temporary "guest" account, log in there, and see if it works. Report back to @heynnemahttps://extensions.gnome.org/local/
and see if the problem goes away. If it does, go back and enable 1-2 extensions at a time and see if the problem returns. This may take some time, as more than one extension could be giving problems. The gnome-shell errors need to get fixed. Report back.