Graphical session fails to start | Xfce spin

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Fresh install of Fedora 42 after Windows 11. No problems. Install and
upgrade went smoothly.

Assigned password for root (and user) rejected
Booted to bash, used passwd root to re-assign
new passwd (fribb1ex) accepted
Rebooted
Same problem

Checked kbd - us
Checked shift key - not
Encryption - no

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Do you get password rejected from the GDM login screen? If so, do you get any message? If you boot with the enforcing=0 boot flag[1], do you manage to log in?

If you’ve changed the password from a minimum bash environment, you’d need the restore SELinux permissions, by booting with the autorelabel=1 boot flag. See this docs page for details.

  1. Which would temporarily set SELinux to permissive mode. ↩︎

3

Perhaps “rejected” is the wrong word. At a guess, I would say that the
password entry causes the GDM login process to crash, and then its
restarted. There is no message.

As to changing root password, I am (sadly) quite familiar with the
process!

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If you suspect that GDM or Gnome is crashing, you can verify that by switching to a virtual console with Ctrl+Alt+F3 and logging in there. If that works, we can investigate the graphical login.

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Unable to reproduce. now its merely rejecting (incorrect password) both
root and user

6

Another attempt

user login rejected with message
root login login screen recycles with no message
virtual console accepts both loogins

BTW: xfce spin

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Maybe look in /var/log/lightdm for reasons why it’s failing, also look at ~/.xsession-errors to see if it’s xfce that is failing.

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Firstly can you explain you install workstation and login with no problems using GDM .after that you install xfce I ask because GDM use gnome and xfce iso will install diffrent DM It’s lightdm .you need to clarify what you use GDM or lightdm

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I was using “GDM” as a synonym for “the xfce desktop graphical
interface” Stupid, but what can I say.

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xcellent suggestion.

Here’s some of what I have today. My guess would be that it results
reinstall F42, so hopefully followups will be difficult :slight_smile:

libxfce4windowing: failed to fetch _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS assuming 1
_NET_WORKKAREA assuming full screen
_NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP assuming 0
iceauth creating new authority file /run/user/1000/ICEauthority
libxfce4windowing SSH authentication agent is already running
failed to rename … no such file
vmware-user: could not open /prof/fs/vmblock/dev
SELinux Troubleshooter: App requies SELinux to be enabled to run
blueman …
(wrapper2.0: 1843) LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING: Unable to replace properties in 0: Error get