My wife's laptop recently started having an issue where GDM will come up but no users are listed.
Any attempt to go to a VT shows the dreaded:
A start job is running for Wait for Plymouth Boot to Quit
Which is never does.
Switching the display manager to lightdm works around the login issue but then screen saver/blanking/power off and locking doesn't work.
It may or may not be related but I've also found that switching to runlevel 3 from a remote ssh session completely locks up the session. No ctl-c or ctl-d or ctl-z has any effect. I have to force quit the terminal and cannot reconnect.
I can then login to the system locally because plymouth has been killed of by changing into multi-user mode and systemctl status shows sshd strangely running fine!
I can go back into graphical mode to the same gdm problem (no users listed) and can connect remotely over ssh again.
This system appears to have completely lost it's mind. I've run "rpm -Va" and nothing jumps out at me, forces fsck, relabeled the whole system. Tried various incantations of downgraded systemd, gdm, and other packages, tried the oldest kernel available, all with the same result.
I've probably spent an accumulated 10 hours on this problem and am about to give up and reinstall...
Thanks,
Richard
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