F14 LXDE spin lxdm-greeter does not go anywhere....

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Dienstag, den 02.11.2010, 17:16 -0500 schrieb Ranjan Maitra:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Thanks very much!

Hi Ranjan,

you are welcome! 

> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:05:31 -0500 Christoph Wickert
> <cwickert at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > 
> > So you can login on the console with the same username and password?
> > 
> 
> Yes, I can. But I have found a strange workaround and that is if I
> switch to the console and back: i.e. doing Ctrl-Alt-F2 and Ctrl-Alt-F1
> in quick succession.

Strange. This looks like a problem with your hardware and the X server,
seems something goes wrong when LXDM tries to switch the VTs.

Please edit /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf and change the line
        arg=/usr/bin/X -nr vt1
to
        # arg=/usr/bin/X -nr vt1

The X-Server should then start on vt7 as it used to be in pre-plymouth
times. Does this work any better?

> I added enforcing=0 at the very end of that line and no change. I
> waited for at least a couple of minutes and then tried my trick above.
> That worked.

Ok, good to know. I really think it's an X problem.

> I got some SELinux alerts as before:
> SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/lxdm-binary "unlink" access
> on .Xauthority

This is a known problem, but it doesn't prevent you from logging in. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635897

> Also, 
> SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/setfiles access to a
> leaked /usr/local/maitra/.xsession-errors file descriptor:
> 
> In both cases, the notification does say:
> [SELinux is in permissive mode. This access was not denied.]
> 
> Note that I have always had my home directory in /usr/local.

Uhh, please don't do that. If will break a *lot* of SELinux rules. Your
home should be /home/maitra.

Regards,
Christoph