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brewmanz
Asked: 2020-02-06 18:46:44 +0800 CST

"oh no something has gone wrong" after clean install of 19.10 LVM and making changes

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Please can someone point me to the logfile/whatever that will provide some information on what causes this message to pop up. I'm sure I can fix it, provided I have more information than some Microsoft-like generic message.

I could even follow kernel code, but without some pointers on where to look for what the problem actually is, trawling blindly through millions of line of code isn't gonna work.

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I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 19.10 onto a drive (SSHD) with boot partition and then LVM partitions for swap, root & home, with another 2 'vms' & 'bulk' leaving 25% of VG free.

To copy stuff into 'bulk' I would mkdir a folder in terminal, use (sudo nautilus) to change owner & group from root to my account, then copy stuff (normal nautilus) from old drives. Also installed new software as I went.

I realised 'bulk' was too small and did lvextend +256G in terminal. Strange: I still couldn't copy my files as not enough room. Did a reboot fine, except when I tried to log in, (I think) I got enter image description here How can I work out WHY it's failed, so I can fix it? (logging out and in again does NOT fix it)

login lvm error-handling 19.10

2 Answers

  1. I trawled through /var/log/syslog (thanks, user535733). It had over 4K lines when limited by manual timed bookends, and 'error' occurred 65 times. I noticed the specific error when comparing it to a working 19.10. The lines in question are

    Feb 10 14:44:02 HP gnome-shell[2035]: gdk_pixbuf_scale_simple: assertion 'dest_height > 0' failed

    Feb 10 14:44:02 HP gnome-shell[2035]: [AppIndicatorSupport-WARN] Attempting to re-register :1.108/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/multiload; resetting instead

    Feb 10 14:44:02 HP gnome-shell[2035]: **

    Feb 10 14:44:02 HP gnome-shell[2035]: Gtk:ERROR:../../../../gtk/gtkicontheme.c:4277:gtk_icon_info_load_icon_finish: assertion failed: (icon_info_get_pixbuf_ready (icon_info))

    Feb 10 14:44:02 HP gnome-shell[2035]: Bail out! Gtk:ERROR:../../../../gtk/gtkicontheme.c:4277:gtk_icon_info_load_icon_finish: assertion failed: (icon_info_get_pixbuf_ready (icon_info))

    Feb 10 14:44:02 HP gnome-shell[2035]: GNOME Shell crashed with signal 6

    The fix Gnome not starting on 19.10 with my existing user but does start with a new user was to remove ~/.config/autostart/indicator-multiload.desktop

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  2. If your are using Virtualbox or Vimware try to enable 3D acceleration by going to setting > Display > enable 3D acceleration Hope will help

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