Cannot log into my account - this is a little urgent, please

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Hello,

I run Fedora 42.

On the log in screen, I type my password, the screen goes black for some tens of seconds, then returns to the login screen. If I try to type my password again, it gives me a box that is not editable (and has an arrow at the left).

I’ve tried booting earlier kernels, same thing happens.

I’ve tried logging in as root, and it worked, so some hope there.

Add: I can log into my account in text mode, but when I try to return to graphic mode, pressing ctrl-alt-Fn does nothing, pressing ctrl-alt-print screen gives me an error message.

Edit: I can log into gnome on xorg! I’ll explore this more.

Edit2: and now that I logged out of gnome on xorg and switched back to gnome, it worked! But if you have any ideas what I might do to avoid further problems, these would be much appreciated, thank you!

Any advice? I truly need to be able to log in, as I’ve lots of work to catch up with, that can only be done on my laptop.

Many thanks indeed for your help.

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This sounds like something is crashing your user session.

Since you can log in on a TTY - you should be able to access the logs from the failed graphical login attempt (journalctl -xb shows the full logs, the errors should be towards the bottom).

You can filter out only high priority error messages like crashes from the logs by using something like journalctl -xb -p 0..3. That should hopefully tell you what’s wrong

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Next time that happen login in with tty and disable gnome extensions –gsettings set org.gnome.shell disable-user-extensions true 99.99% some of extensions make trouble.Specially now that gnome on xorg will be not maintained any more from fedora 43 you will need to remember this.

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Should I do this anyway, preventively, even if the problem has solved itself? And how has that happened?

Thank you!

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Thank you! I’ll remember this, although am not sure I would know how to identify what’s wrong and how to correct it.

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If the issue has fixed itself, then no need to disable your user extensions.

I do wonder what broke for you tho. Did you checked the logs, as Fabio said?

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I didn’t unfortunately, I rushed to do what I had to. Is it possible to see errors from past logins?

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You can install Logs app from flathub to easily see them. And yes, it is possible :slight_smile: