Re: lightdm fails to start a gnome session

[Joachim Backes]

On 04/16/2014 07:46 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote:
>  On 16 April 2014 07:24, Joachim Backes
> <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>  
>      On 04/15/2014 04:05 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>      > On 04/15/2014 09:51 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
>      >> Hi all,
>      >>
>      >> having the problem that lightdm is'nt able to start a gnome-session:
>      >> only seeing a screen with the (well known):
>      >>
>      >> Oh no! Something has gone wrong. Please log out and try again.
>      >>
>      >> Login in again shows the same phenomena, and so on...
>      >>
>      >> No problem to start a kde session with lightdm.
>      > 2 things to try..
>      > 1. add a guest user & see if that can log in to gnome.
>  
>      No, fails. (Oh, no. Something ...)
>  
>      Only the root account can start a gnome session iniated by lightdm.
>  
>  
>  Check the output of `journalctl -b /usr/bin/gnome-session` as root. Also
>  /var/log/Xorg.0.log (it's /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old if you have restarted
>  the X server by e.g. clicking the logout button on the "ho, no" screen).
>   
Hi Ahmad, thank you for the hint. "journalctl -b /usr/bin/gnome-session"
produced a lot of output. No error msg in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

Kind regards

Joachim Backes

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