gnome-shell won't start

[Ahmad Samir]

On 4 February 2014 13:55, Stephen Berg (Contractor) <
stephen.berg.ctr at nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:

>  On 02/04/2014 01:23 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote:
>
>  On 3 February 2014 19:40, Stephen Berg (Contractor) <
> stephen.berg.ctr at nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:
>
>> I'm having a rather serious issue getting logged onto my system using
>> gnome.  GDM starts, I put in user name and password and the login starts
>> but I never get a desktop loaded and usable.
>>
>>
>  What happens exactly?
>
> I get a black screen with a mouse cursor.  Nothing else happens after that
> besides a little drive activity for a minute or so and even that goes
> away.
>
>
> As has been posted, I'd try with a new user account.
>
>   Tried a new local account on the system and was able to login with no
> problems.  I'm thinking there's some bit of kruft hanging around in a dot
> file somewhere that is causing issues.  But finding it is not gonna be easy.
>
> To test I moved my home directory off to a safe location, created an empty
> home directory in it's place and tried again.  I still get the black
> screen, mouse cursor and nothing else.  I've looked at "journalctl -b" and
> there's plenty in there, kind of hard to track down exactly what is
> relevant and what isn't.
>
>
You can filter the output:
journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-session -b

or keep 'journalctl --full -f' running then log in, (-f makes it keep
printing new logs in the terminal).



> KDE works fine, gnome-shell for root works fine.  It seems to be something
> about my account, or something in my home directory causing this, but I
> can't find what is causing this.  Errors and/or warnings aren't jumping out
> at me in any of the logs.  I'd like to find a way to get GDM and/or Gnome
> to log what they are doing to a specific file separate from any other
> logs.  Maybe I can find something to at least get started with
> troubleshooting.
>
>
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Ahmad Samir
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