On Jul 2 22:34, antonio montagnani wrote: > After fedup'ing I have a fully updated system but surprise I cannot > login, after the password insertion of any user I get a blank screen > with the fedora log on the bottom, and nothing happens. I had an analogue problem after yum distro-sync. After logging in to kdm, I just got the kdm desktop background and a mouse pointer I could push around, but nothing else. Looking into ps output, I saw that the usual xfce4 processes were running, they were just not visible on the desktop for some magic reason. Per the log entries everything has run fine, no error message at all. I did the update with SELinux disabled and SELinux was still disabled when this occured. I also set SELinux to enforced and rebooted, which relabled everything, but the problem persisted and there was nothing pointing to an SELinux problem in the logs either. I don't know if that helps in your case, but here's how I fixed it. My login shell is tcsh. In my .login file I had three entries to set the tmp dir to ~/tmp: setenv TMP ~/tmp setenv TEMP ~/tmp setenv TMPDIR ~/tmp At one point digging in the net, I read something about trouble when some application couldn't write to /tmp. So I had the crazy idea to disable the above entries in my .login and I even removed the ~/tmp directory entirely. After init 3/init 5 (yes, I know), the next login worked as expected, my xfce4 desktop showed up and the problem was fixed. Next morning I thought it might be a good idea to write a bug report, so I created ~/tmp again and enabled the above three environment vars in .login, but it didn't help. The xfce4 desktop still started normally. I'm not able to reproduce the issue anymore. Corinna -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
