On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:43:43 -0600 Charles Curley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I rebooted, and tried to log in. I got a very brief message, then was > thrown back to lightdm. > > I can go to a console and log in to my user account. I can then run > startx, and I am back in my usual session. > > I had made some changes to lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf, but have backed > those out entirely. Similar changes work fine on other systems, and I > got the same failure to log in when I had those changes made. I solved that problem. lightdm has the options of default session, X11 session, and Wayland session. It had somehow been set to Wayland. Probably operator error. When I set it to default, it worked. Phew! -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
