On 22.12.2013 22:49, David Highley wrote: > "David Highley wrote:" >> >> "Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:" >>> >>> On 21.12.2013 20:40, David Highley wrote: >>>> We upgraded a test system to Fedora 20 using the fedup process. There >>>> were 60 packages that were left from Fedora 19 after the upgrade that >>>> were subsequently fixed by doing a yum distro-sync. Since the upgrade we >>>> are not able to login into a Gnome session. We select the user in the >>>> greater and it prompts for the pass word. After that it goes to the >>>> grayed background and hangs leaving the user session in a hung state >>>> where you have cursor control but the session setup does not get to the >>>> point where you can select anything. >>>> >>>> We have checked the logs and see nothing in the logs that indicate an >>>> issue. The other change noticed is the monitor never goes to sleep when >>>> the greater screen is active. >>>> >>> >>> Does systemctl restart gdm.service from text shell help you restore >>> system responsiveness? It might be some problem with gnome-shell or >>> Xorg, I'm facing similar behavior from time to time on fresh installation. >> >> Same recovery as doing init 3 init 5 you get back to the Gnome greater >> screen with the session ended. We have looked at the Xorg log files and >> see nothing wrong in them. Our case is not intermittent. We have tried >> both VGA and HDMI connections and get the same results. We have also >> reviewed dmesg and the /var/log/message log files. Nothing seems to get >> logged. We have checked for selinux avc issues and tried login in >> selinux Permissive mode. Second check just now indicates that a >> systemctl restart gdm.service gets us back to the Gnome greater screen >> but then we were not able to select a user for login. >> > > We see by using journalctl -f | less > That the shell fails to register before a timeout occurs and that there > is a kernal pool segfault and a core dump. We have not been able to > determine if they are all related. Except they happen close together. > It might be coincidence but it's worth investigating it. I don't experience any core dumps when having issues with gnome-shell but who knows how it's in your case. Mateusz Marzantowicz -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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
