After installing Fedora Cinnamon, I was able to boot into my desktop environment by signing in one time as is expected. After upgrading the system, I restarted and got to the login screen, I signed in, then I was returned to the login screen again, so I signed in again, then I got to my desktop.
My question is what’s with the double sign in. Why is this happening? Is there anything I can do to fix it? If you need more information, please tell me what you need to know.
Has the ‘double sign in’ been required every restart login since? I have used Fedora with the Cinnamon desktop environment for years and have never seen this behavior, and I update and reboot as new kernels are available or log out and back in for lesser updates.
Yes. I initially saw the notification for your reply while in Windows 11. I restarted o access Fedora, and I had to log in twice to get to my desktop.
Here are a few added bits of information that did not occur to me yesterday (24 February, 2023) when I wrote the initial question:
I have configured grub2 to access the current OS on restart (I reboot, when I get to the OS selection screen, the cursor is on the OS I restarted from, not the default of Fedora-cinnamon). I checked that the GRUB_DEFAULT line reads “GRUB_DEFAULT=saved”. I created a blank line below it. On that blank line I entered “GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true” and saved my changes. To update my grub2 configuration, I used the command “sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg”.
I made this change immediately after completing the Fedora-Cinnamon installation, and rebooting into my new desktop environment. After re-configuring grub2, I restarted the computer and switched to Windows 11. Shortly after, I re-booted back into Fedora-Cinnamon. No double sign-in. I then upgraded Fedora-Cinnamon. I re-booted, and signed in. I was returned to the sign-in screen, so I signed in again. On the second sign-in I reached my desktop environment.
Perhaps something I did caused grub2 to exhibit this behavior. I hope these added details are useful, and I hope there is a solution/fix. The double sign-in is definitely not a deal breaker for me, but it is puzzling, and a bit concerning to me.