Re: Can't log in to graphical workstation

[Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2023-11-15 at 22:26 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:

Now I understand, it is the local graphic login that is not working?

1. Did you install the server install on tis machine or the workstation one?

Think the server installation doesn't install the gui by default.

Did that once to see what it did, and without the gui it was not usefull.

2. In you login to a terminal window. run systemctl status gdm and see what it reports.

Since I run kde, the display manager is actually sddm, and systemctl gives very interesting info. Some research shows that a package is missing, namely plasma-workspace-x11. Installing it cures things. The problem actually arose in Fedora 38 (I have no idea how.); I upgraded to Fedora 39 to see if this would cure the problem, but since plasma-workspace-x11 was missing from 38, it stayed missing in 39.

$ systemctl status sddm.service  
● sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
   Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
            └─10-timeout-abort.conf
    Active: active (running) since Wed 2023-11-15 03:09:44 PST; 8h ago
      Docs: man:sddm(1)
            man:sddm.conf(5)
  Main PID: 1125 (sddm)
     Tasks: 2 (limit: 9302)
    Memory: 20.1M
       CPU: 71ms
    CGroup: /system.slice/sddm.service
            └─1125 /usr/bin/sddm

Nov 15 03:09:44 OaklandWeather.localdomain systemd[1]: Started sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Nov 15 03:09:45 OaklandWeather.localdomain sddm[1125]: Unable to find autologin session entry "plasma"
Nov 15 03:09:45 OaklandWeather.localdomain sddm[1125]: Autologin failed!
Nov 15 03:09:45 OaklandWeather.localdomain sddm[1125]: The configured theme "01-breeze-fedora" doesn't exist, using the embedded theme instead
Nov 15 03:09:45 OaklandWeather.localdomain sddm-helper[1164]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm(uid=988) by (uid=0)
Nov 15 10:46:36 OaklandWeather.localdomain sddm[1125]: Invalid session ""

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Many Thanks - Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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