On 04/16/2014 07:46 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote: > On 16 April 2014 07:24, Joachim Backes <joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de > <mailto: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). >
Hi Ahmad, thank you for the hint. "journalctl -b /usr/bin/gnome-session" produced a lot of output. No error msg in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Kind regards Joachim Backes -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) Kernel-3.13.10-200.fc20.x86_64 Joachim Backes <joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de> https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/de-index.html https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/en-index.html -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
