Well, "we have met the enemy and he is us".
I very regularly use rsync to backup my home directory to a different machine.
So, after installing from KDE Live, logging in from a remote machine,
I restored my home directory with the saved backup. This created/over-wrote
.local
.config
.cache
.gtkrc-2.0
.gtkrc-2.0-kde4
.mozilla
This removed all the wayland stuff and other files that were placed there
during the useradd/gui_login_attempt.
Lesson 1, if you need to restore a backup, be careful about restoring
certain directories ... especially if you did an install/upgrade after the
taking of the backup.
So, I got errors from who knows where and could not login from the
login screen but could ssh into the machine.
Now, having deleted the above directories and then doing an initial
gui login, I succeeded.
Richard
On 10/6/23 08:45, Barry wrote:
On 6 Oct 2023, at 15:57, richard emberson <emberson.rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Back in 10/04/2023 I got "Pri Master Hard Disk SMART status BAD"
# smartctl -a /dev/sda | more
Western Digital VelociRaptor
WDC WD3000GLFS-01F8U0
SATA 2.5 3.0 Gb/s
10000 rpm
...
health test result: FAILED!
failure less than 24 hours SAVE ALL DATA
...
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes..
ID NAME ... WHEN_FAILED RAW_VLAUE
...
5 Reallocated_Secor_Ct FAILING NOW 548
So, I got a new hard disk and installed from KDE Live.
(
Fedora XFCE Live 38 could not be installed.
Lots of: Timed out for waiting the udev queue being empty
)
I then "dnf update"
This is my first attempt at using Wayland ... always
been an X.org guy.
Installed xterm, started xterm, system crashed.
Now, I get the login GUI screen, but I can not login
as a user; the screen goes blank and then returns to the
login screen.
But, I can login as 'root' (Super User).
Also, I can ssh in as the user and from root login in a terminal
I can su to the user.
Running lspci I see:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
Any help would be appreciated
I would expect there to be logs in the journal with a clue why the user cannot log in.
Barry
Richard
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