On 16 April 2014 07:24, Joachim Backes <joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de>wrote:

> On 04/15/2014 04:05 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On 04/15/2014 09:51 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> having the problem that lightdm is'nt able to start a gnome-session:
> >> only seeing a screen with the (well known):
> >>
> >> Oh no! Something has gone wrong. Please log out and try again.
> >>
> >> Login in again shows the same phenomena, and so on...
> >>
> >> No problem to start a kde session with lightdm.
> > 2 things to try..
> > 1. add a guest user & see if that can log in to gnome.
>
> No, fails. (Oh, no. Something ...)
>
> Only the root account can start a gnome session iniated by lightdm.
>
>
Check the output of `journalctl -b /usr/bin/gnome-session` as root. Also
/var/log/Xorg.0.log (it's /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old if you have restarted the
X server by e.g. clicking the logout button on the "ho, no" screen).
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