On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 08:31 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > I ran yum update this morning, getting a gazillion updates. > I rebooted the system. > > When it came back up, I couldn't log in. I'd get a KDM screen, > login, then immediately get the KDM screen again. > > I tried to login with a "failsafe" session which gave me > (apparently) an xterm that printed black rectangles > for all characters :-). > > I tried other sessions like xfce and gnome and got the > same KDM login screen popping back up after I typed > my password. > > I got in a vterm as root, created a new user, and > logged in as that user with a default gnome session. > That seemed to work fine. I decided I should compare > what is running in the session with my original > user, so I logged out and logged in again as original > user, and now my original user login works fine. > > Logging in once as a different user appears to have > completely fixed the system. > > What the heck was that? (It will be interesting to > see if the same sequence happens when I install the > latest updates at home). Glad I'm not the only one with a problem! kdm and xfce I have two workarounds >From Cont/Alt/F2 window as root systemctl disable kdm.service systemctl stop kdm.service systemctl enable lightdm.service systemctl start lightdm.service OR yum downgrade kdm libkworkspace kgreeter-plugins kde-workspace \ kde-workspace-libs kcm_colors kde-style-oxygen I will try your solution next John -- 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
