Hi I thought I should reply to this one due to the fact that I think that no one else is going to work it out... Would be useful to leave this in the Fedora Users archive.... > I did a dnf update on my F23 workstation. After rebooting to make > sure that the updates were working properly I find that I can't get > to the login screen. I see the blue Fedora logo for a split second. > Then the command line appears with a message to do Ctrl-D or login as > root. Nouveau drivers for the graphics card. I can login as root and > use a text editor. After the failed X startup I can see the > following error message on the screen > > Error getting authority: Error initialization authority: Could not > connect: No such file or directory (g-io-error-quark, 1) > > If I have a look at the log in /home/user/.local/share/xorg it says... > > Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 1 > (Permission > denied. > If I try startx as as a user or as root I can see.. for example... in > /var/log/Xorg.0.log... > > dbus core: error connecting to system bus: > org.freedesktop.Dbus.Error.FileNotFound (Failed to connect to socket > /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory) > > Can anyone suggest how to fix this ? I can't send in lengthy logs due > to the fact that I can't ssh into the machine or run a second or > third console. Access to one console only. The answer this one is.... https://askubuntu.com/questions/631362/error-getting-authority-error-initializing-authority-could-not-connect-no-suc “ Add the option nofail to the failing mount point or all the mount points that are not required at boot time. “ That fixed it. Working fine now :) Thank you. -- Richard Sheffield UK -- 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
