Re: gnome-shell won't start

Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:48:26 +0800



    On 02/04/14 19:55, Stephen Berg
      (Contractor) wrote:

    
      On 02/04/2014 01:23 AM, Ahmad Samir
        wrote:

      
            On 3 February 2014 19:40, Stephen
              Berg (Contractor) <stephen.berg.ctr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
              wrote:

              I'm
                having a rather serious issue getting logged onto my
                system using gnome.  GDM starts, I put in user name and
                password and the login starts but I never get a desktop
                loaded and usable.

                
              What happens exactly? 

              
      I get a black screen with a mouse cursor.  Nothing else happens
      after that besides a little drive activity for a minute or so and
      even that goes away.  

      
              As has been posted, I'd try with a new user account.

              
      Tried a new local account on the system and was able to login with
      no problems.  I'm thinking there's some bit of kruft hanging
      around in a dot file somewhere that is causing issues.  But
      finding it is not gonna be easy.

      
      To test I moved my home directory off to a safe location, created
      an empty home directory in it's place and tried again.  I still
      get the black screen, mouse cursor and nothing else.  I've looked
      at "journalctl -b" and there's plenty in there, kind of hard to
      track down exactly what is relevant and what isn't.

      
      KDE works fine, gnome-shell for root works fine.  It seems to be
      something about my account, or something in my home directory
      causing this, but I can't find what is causing this.  Errors
      and/or warnings aren't jumping out at me in any of the logs.  I'd
      like to find a way to get GDM and/or Gnome to log what they are
      doing to a specific file separate from any other logs.  Maybe I
      can find something to at least get started with troubleshooting.

      
    One thing you could try is to switch from using GDM to KDM.  

    
    One thing that does puzzle me is you said you created a new "local"
    account and it work.  You then moved your home directory out of the
    way, created a new home, and it still failed.  Seems like would have
    also worked.....

    
    Now, another thing you can do....since you have a copy of your home
    directory....would be to make note of your UID/GID of your old
    account and then delete it.  Create a new account and specify the
    UID/GID as before and you should have a "new local account" as
    you've done before and tested...and it should work.  Then, copy back
    your home directory in bits and pieces while logging in/out to see
    if the problem comes back.

    
    -- 

      Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serving posts
    
  
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