Black screen after gnome startup

Today when I boot up my computer I realize that after Gnome session startup a black screen with a white cursor in top left of screen, showed up. After 20/30 seconds it opens the login screen. Before it was almost instantly.

I update the kernel (6.3.1-arch2-1) and nvidia drivers yesterday I don´t know if that can be the problem.

I was checking journalctl -xb and I saw gnome-session-binary failed.

Which version of Gnome?

44.1

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Thanks! I just downgrade the at-spi2-core and solved my problem.

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can we remove this package? it has to do something with accessibility, can we even remove the accessibility stuff?

[csaba@csaba-mini ~]$ sudo pacman -Rs at-spi2-core
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing at-spi2-core breaks dependency 'atk' required by atkmm
:: removing at-spi2-core breaks dependency 'atk' required by gtk2
:: removing at-spi2-core breaks dependency 'atk' required by gtk3
:: removing at-spi2-core breaks dependency 'at-spi2-core' required by lib32-at-spi2-core
:: removing at-spi2-core breaks dependency 'at-spi2-atk' required by spotify-launcher
:: removing at-spi2-core breaks dependency 'atk' required by steam-native-runtime
:: removing at-spi2-core breaks dependency 'at-spi2-core' required by webkit2gtk
:: removing at-spi2-core breaks dependency 'atk' required by webkit2gtk
:: removing at-spi2-core breaks dependency 'at-spi2-core' required by webkit2gtk-4.1
:: removing at-spi2-core breaks dependency 'atk' required by webkit2gtk-4.1

I don´t know if we can remove it, because it is dependency for other stuff, but you can downgrade it for now (until they fix it).

Find your old version in pacman cache (in my case was 2.48.0-2): ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg/at-spi2-core*

Then use pacman to install it: sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/at-spi2-core-2.48.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zs

I was just asking, if we could remove unnecessary stuf somehow. there’s a utility for this downgrade at-spi2-core

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This package at-spi2-core?

I just ran pactree -r at-spi2-core.

It doesn’t seem to be a good idea to remove it on my system.

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yeah, looks like accessibilty is baked into gnome.

It doesn’t look like to be about accessibility:

pactree -r at-spi2-core

at-spi2-core

├─atkmm
│ └─gtkmm3
│   ├─gparted
│   └─pavucontrol
├─gtk3
│ ├─alacarte
│ ├─bleachbit
│ ├─cinnamon-desktop
│ │ └─nemo
│ ├─clutter
│ │ └─clutter-gtk
│ │   └─gthumb
│ ├─evince
│ ├─firefox
│ ├─gcr
│ │ ├─gnome-control-center
│ │ ├─gnome-keyring
│ │ │ └─xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
│ │ │   └─xdg-desktop-portal
│ │ │     └─flatpak
│ │ │       └─malcontent
│ │ ├─gnome-online-accounts
│ │ │ └─gnome-control-center
│ │ └─gvfs
│ │   ├─evince
│ │   ├─gvfs-mtp
│ │   └─nemo
│ ├─gnome-autoar
│ │ └─gnome-shell
│ │   ├─gdm
│ │   └─gnome-control-center
│ ├─gnome-color-manager
│ │ └─gnome-control-center
│ ├─gnome-desktop
│ │ ├─evince
│ │ ├─gnome-session
│ │ │ ├─gdm
│ │ │ └─gnome-shell
│ │ └─gnome-settings-daemon
│ │   ├─gnome-control-center
│ │   ├─gnome-shell
│ │   ├─gnome-tweaks
│ │   └─mutter
│ │     └─gnome-shell
│ ├─gnome-disk-utility
│ ├─gnome-nettool
│ ├─gnome-power-manager
│ ├─gnome-screenshot
│ ├─gnome-settings-daemon
│ ├─gspell
│ │ └─evince
│ ├─gst-plugin-gtk
│ │ └─gthumb
│ ├─gtkd
│ │ └─tilix
│ ├─gtkmm3
│ ├─gtksourceview4
│ │ ├─meld
│ │ └─mousepad
│ ├─gufw
│ ├─libdbusmenu-gtk3
│ │ └─xapp
│ │   └─nemo
│ ├─libgnomekbd
│ │ ├─gnome-control-center
│ │ └─xapp
│ ├─libhandy
│ │ ├─evince
│ │ ├─file-roller
│ │ ├─gnome-disk-utility
│ │ ├─gnome-screenshot
│ │ └─gnome-tweaks
│ ├─libnma
│ │ └─nm-connection-editor
│ ├─libportal-gtk3
│ │ └─file-roller
│ ├─libwnck3
│ ├─vte3
│ │ ├─gnome-terminal
│ │ └─tilix
│ ├─webkit2gtk
│ │ ├─gthumb
│ │ └─gufw
│ ├─webkit2gtk-4.1
│ │ └─gnome-online-accounts
│ ├─xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
│ │ ├─xdg-desktop-portal
│ │ └─xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
│ └─xdg-user-dirs-gtk
├─webkit2gtk
└─webkit2gtk-4.1

remember to add at-spi2-core to the IgnorePkg line in your /etc/pacman.conf file.

Looks like a fix has been pushed. https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/at-spi2-core/

I was affected, and the updated version works fine.

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KDE boots up just fine, just sayin’… :rofl:

But I’m glad this issue has been fixed.

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I was kinda waiting for you ngl

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