On 04/23/2021 7:28 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 23/04/2021 21:08, home user wrote:
My gut tells me the SELinux re-label either never finishedor never started. The 4 lines that I put into my most recent post came up in under 2 minutes after the grub menu disappeared, and I never saw any hint of output from a SELinux relabelling. So when I try what Ed and Joe suggest, should I also add "selinux=0" to the linux line? And how long should I wait before assuming something is stuck in a loop, frozen, etc. and do a hard reset?
No, don't disable selinux in this case.
Just boot the system, edit the linux line to add 3 and continue. This will get you to a text mode login prompt and gdm would not have been started.
I suspect when login and type
sudo systemctl start display-manager
you will get an error and then can more info from
systemctl status display-manager or looking at journal entries.
(sigh) I had to remember all those log-in names! :(
It took some time to get rid of distractions. I did get in. I had to edit the .bash_profile in the user, admin, and root accounts to comment out xeyes.
I did a few tests. In all cases, the workstation ends up "frozen" but it sounds like a fan in the tower is surging, and I must do a hard shutdown.
1. (login as a regular user) sudo systemctl [etc] (enter the regular user password) "bill is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported." (sigh) Now y'all got me in trouble with me! :) su - (enter root password) systemctl [etc] (blank; freeze; fan surge; hard shutdown)
2. (login as regular user su - (enter root password) systemctl [etc] [FAILED] Failed to start Accounts Service. [FAILED] Failed to start GNOME Display Manager. (freeze; fan surge; hard shutdown)
3. (login as admin) systemctl [etc] (I'm prompted for the admin password) (enter admin password) [FAILED] Failed to start Accounts Service. [FAILED] Failed to start GNOME Display Manager. (freeze; fan surge; hard shutdown)
4. (login as root) systemctl [etc] [FAILED] Failed to start Accounts Service. [FAILED] Failed to start GNOME Display Manager. (freeze; fan surge; hard shutdown)