Re: after upgrading fedora rawhide this morning, no graphical desktop

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On 03/13/2014 02:58 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Kevin Martin wrote:
> 
>> On 03/13/2014 07:57 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>> 
>>> recently, i upgraded my ASUS G74S laptop to fedora rawhide and it was
>>> running nicely. then this morning, i did another "yum update", which
>>> appeared to update well over 200 packages (including a slightly newer
>>> kernel), after which, when i booted, i had no graphical desktop 
>>> anymore, just the little blue and white fedora logo.
>>> 
>>> i can still switch to VC2 and log in at the command line (where i am 
>>> now), so i can certainly check log files, but i don't see anything 
>>> immediately amiss.
>>> 
>>> i rebooted both to the earlier rawhide kernel, and even back to the 
>>> latest fedora 20 official kernel -- same result, the fedora logo in the
>>> middle of the screen on VC1, but the ability to log in on another 
>>> virtual console.
>>> 
>>> has anyone else run into this? i have an nvidia graphics card, and am
>>> running the nouveau driver. i'll keep poking around the log files, and
>>> if you have any suggestions, i'm all ears.
>>> 
>>> rday
>>> 
>> Hmm, sounds similar to what I'm experiencing.  When you go into VC2 what
>> does "lsmod | grep nouveau" show?  I've found that I've been having to
>> manually "modprobe nouveau modeset=1" since doing my update about 4 days
>> ago.  I'm not sure why nouveau won't load and I find that if I don't set
>> the modeset=1 when I do the manual modprobe that I still can't get X.
> 
> hmmmm ... it's possible this is not related to rawhide at all, and is due
> to something silly i did earlier this morning. could the following be the
> cause?
> 
> in order to install drupal 8.x on my fedora (rawhide) system, i had to
> disable selinux ("setenforce 0"). i *think* that while selinux was thus
> disabled, i may have done "yum update", which would have of course updated
> those 200+ packages while my system was in permissive mode. once i saw i
> had a new kernel due to the update, i of course rebooted, which rebooted
> with selinux back in enforcing mode, and the problems started. simply
> putting selinux back into permissive mode fixed everything.
> 
> i'm by no means an selinux expert -- is that how i caused my problem?
> 
> rday
> 
What AVC messages are you getting?

ausearch -m avc -ts today


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