I solved this myself but wanted to document the solution in case other users might have the same issues. All hints and feedback on how to best achieve this goal are appreciated. Issue The upgrade itself ran smooth but after boot there is just a blinking cursor, no login screen. Debugging steps (f…

The solution is already in the top post but I can’t select it to mark the thread as solved.

Yeah, I got caught by this, too. It would have been so bad if authselect wasn’t so confusing. There are warnings everywhere not to edit files, but there isn’t any documentation about how to configure modules that are not pre-defined “features”. My system is up, again, with a custom profile; that …

[image] PRD: but there isn’t any documentation about how to configure modules that are not pre-defined “features”. For special needs, you can create your own profile using authselect create-profile. Run man authselect to see the man page and search for “create-profile”. For example sudo au…

[image] Alex Prengel: I’ve been using Linux for about 28 years and without this posting I’d still have a broken Linux update. I’m surprised you wouldn’t have just reinstalled. I have less experience (Ubuntu 6.06), but seen update issues back then, had some with Windows before that, and by th…

Thanks. That’s where I was headed, but it doesn’t say those files are editable anywhere in the documentation, while everywhere else it just says DO NOT EDIT. Can you define your own “features” somehow?

Hello everyone, I’m glad that this already helped a hand full of users who commented here (and probably a few more who didn’t), seems like my time writing it was well spent :slight_smile: While there are surely interesting use cases for custom authselect features, I’d ask you, @prdamon , to create …

[image] PRD: Can you define your own “features” somehow? If you create your own profile, you can modify it to exactly the way you want. Or you could opt-out of using authprofile, and edit the files in /etc/pam.d. However, if you do so, you also need to make manual updates when and if needed…

[image] David Auer: One thing that could be discussed here, however is this thought in the back of my mind: Could we as the Fedora community have done something to prevent people running into this issue? Is there something we still can do? Would it be worth the effort and what would be the first…

Hello, Since my upgrade from FC42 to FC43 I have read many replies. From David Auer I have read: Solution Switch to a text console (Ctrl+Alt+F3), login as prompted. Check your current status of authselect: authselect current If it says No existing configuration detected. then this issue …

I don’t see how your questions are related to this thread and I can’t answer them, sorry. Please try to stay on topic and create a new thread when in doubt.

I have read your comment and because your topic was marked as Solved, then I shall create a new topic. Very sorry that I have made that reply to this topic. Kind regards, Gaston Verhulst

No login screen after upgrade to f43 (Solved: authselect was never set up on a system upgraded through many versions)

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amunir (akhtar munir) April 16, 2026, 4:21pm 22

Hi Alex how you fix this issue? I have same issue.

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No login screen after upgrade to f43 (Solved: authselect was never set up on a system upgraded through many versions)

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