#788373 gnome-settings-daemon: Session dies with "Oh no..." when Wacom tablet is connected

Package:
gnome-settings-daemon
Source:
gnome-settings-daemon
Description:
daemon handling the GNOME session settings
Submitter:
Andreas Kloeckner
Date:
2015-06-10 19:06:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
#788373#5
Date:
2015-06-10 18:22:48 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

When I have my Wacom tablet ("Intuos Pen & Touch Small", ID VID 0x056a
PID 0x0302) connected during startup or resume-from-suspend, my Gnome
3.16 session will refuse to start with an "Oh no, something has gone
wrong" message. Plugging in the tablet after startup has no adverse
effect as far as I can tell.

Using 'journalctl -b /usr/bin/gnome-session', I was able to find the
following incriminating evidence:

Jun 10 13:08:02 bolt gnome-session[29924]: (gnome-settings-daemon:30168): wacom-plugin-WARNING **: Failed to create fallback wacom device for '/dev/input/event25': Unsupported bus 'hid' (5)
Jun 10 13:08:02 bolt gnome-session[29924]: (gnome-settings-daemon:30168): wacom-plugin-WARNING **: Failed to create fallback wacom device for '/dev/input/event2': Unsupported bus 'hid' (5)
Jun 10 13:08:02 bolt gnome-session[29924]: (gnome-settings-daemon:30168): wacom-plugin-WARNING **: Failed to create fallback wacom device for '/dev/input/event2': Unsupported bus 'hid' (5)
Jun 10 13:08:02 bolt gnome-session[29924]: (gnome-settings-daemon:30168): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed
Jun 10 13:08:02 bolt gnome-session[29924]: (gnome-settings-daemon:30168): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_ref_sink: assertion 'value != NULL' failed
Jun 10 13:08:02 bolt gnome-session[29924]: (gnome-settings-daemon:30168): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed
Jun 10 13:08:02 bolt gnome-session[29924]: (gnome-settings-daemon:30168): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_ref_sink: assertion 'value != NULL' failed
Jun 10 13:08:02 bolt gnome-session[29924]: (gnome-settings-daemon:30168): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed
Jun 10 13:08:02 bolt gnome-session[29924]: (gnome-settings-daemon:30168): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_ref_sink: assertion 'value != NULL' failed
Jun 10 13:08:02 bolt gnome-session[29924]: WARNING: App 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' respawning too quickly
Jun 10 13:08:02 bolt gnome-session[29924]: Unrecoverable failure in required component gnome-settings-daemon.desktop
Jun 10 13:08:02 bolt gnome-session[29924]: gnome-session[29924]: WARNING: App 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' respawning too quickly
Jun 10 13:08:02 bolt gnome-session[29924]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' killed by signal 11
Jun 10 13:08:02 bolt gnome-session[29924]: gnome-session[29924]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' killed by signal 11

Thanks for your maintainership of Gnome in Debian!

Andreas