cosmic-greeter-daemon prevents cosmic-greeter from starting

[Quackdoc]

I only updated recently so I didn't realize I had didn't have cosmic-greeter-daemon running. But with the latest commit it implicitly enabled it.

I did downgrade/remove the want section, try it again, and it worked, manually enabled cosmic-greeter-daemon and it indeed just left me with a gray screen. Once cosmic-greeter-daemon breaks cosmic, a downgrade and restart is needed simply restarting cosmic-greeter is not good enough.

Logs were made using journalctl --boot -g cosmic > logs/cosmic-greeter-good.txt

good log:
cosmic-greeter-good.txt

bad log:
cosmic-greeter-bad.txt

[colemickens]

I wonder if this is the behavior I've been seeing, it sounds very similar. I did notice this in the logs:

May 02 13:50:11 zeph systemd[1]: cosmic-greeter-daemon.service: Consumed 1.455s CPU time, no IP traffic.
May 02 13:50:11 zeph systemd[1]: Stopped cosmic-greeter-daemon.service.
May 02 13:50:11 zeph systemd[1]: cosmic-greeter-daemon.service: Deactivated successfully.
May 02 13:50:11 zeph systemd[1]: Stopping cosmic-greeter-daemon.service...
May 02 13:49:55 zeph cosmic-greeter-daemon[1638]: [2024-05-02T18:49:55Z ERROR cosmic_greeter_daemon] failed to load cosmic-theme config: [RonSpanned(SpannedError { code: MissingStructField { field: "small_widget", outer: Some("Container") }, position: Position { line: 1, col: 1013 } }), RonSpanned(SpannedError { code: MissingStructField { field: "small_widget", outer: Some("Container") }, position: Position { line: 1, col: 1004 } }), RonSpanned(SpannedError { code: MissingStructField { field: "small_widget", outer: Some("Container") }, position: Position { line: 1, col: 1011 } })]

but I'm not sure if that's related or fatal, since the service stays in a running state.

I see these log lines even in a working vm configuration. Minimizing my comment.

[ryanabx]

When did this start occurring?

[Quackdoc]

I went back and tested the commit it was added in and it still didn't work.