Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:
I'm having a rather serious issue getting logged onto my system using
gnome. GDM starts, I put in user name and password and the login
starts but I never get a desktop loaded and usable.
Fedora 20
gnome-shell-3.10.3-2
Nvidia GT330
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.38.run compiled locally from geforce.com
I've tried the kmod and akmod drivers from RPM Fusion, no difference.
I can logon using KDE and everything works like I expect.
Tried the same thing on a very similar machine and got the same
results. The only significant differences are the second system has
an Nvidia GT210, and is using the akmod driver. The root account can
get a gnome-shell login working and everything works on both systems.
I deleted everything from my home directory that appeared to be gnome
related and tried again, still no luck.
Right now I'm not seeing a .xsession-errors file in my home directory
so kind of hard to troubleshoot. Is some some rc file that I can
tweak so gnome will log some more verbose status and/or errors?
I had similar sounding problem on two different Fedora systems with
older GPUs. Some kind of timing issue wherein gdm does not relinquish
some X resources in time for the user session to start. The user session
fails because it cannot start its own Xorg. The result is as you
describe, nothing happens after you login.
My newer machines start up successfully.
My solution was to use lightdm rather than gdm. Basically
* yum install lightdm
* systemctl enable lightdm.service
* systemctl disable gdm.service
* ...reboot
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