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.