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

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi Chris,

Thanks very much!

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:05:31 -0500 Christoph Wickert
<cwickert at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 02.11.2010, 10:17 -0500 schrieb Ranjan Maitra:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Just installed Fedora 14 LXDE spin on my trusty IBM T61 Thinkpad laptop.
> > 
> > It was a clean install, however after install, I can not get beyond the
> > login screen.
> > 
> > Here is what happens:
> > 
> > 
> > I input my user name for the Username:  
> > hit enter
> > and then my password next to Password:
> > 
> > Both go away, but the big Login screen does not. (Basically nothing
> > happens). Hitting the quit button to reboot/shutdown causes a flashback
> > to the first login screen (and then the above process is repeated with
> > amazing regularity). 
> > 
> > Going in to console mode and logging in shows lxdm-greeter as a process
> > running. Nothing else is out of the ordinary.
> 
> 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.

> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Boot with SELinux disabled to see if it is the culprit. When the grub
> prompt appears, hit a key to get to the menu. Then select your kernel
> and hit "e" to edit. Select the line starting with "kernel=...", hit "e"
> again and add "enforcing=0" to the end of the line. Then press "b" to
> boot.

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. 

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

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.

> 
> If it is a SELinux Problem, please tell me what version of
> selinux-policy is installed.
 
3.9.7-7.fc14-noarch.

> Regards,
> Christoph

Many thanks again and best wishes,
Ranjan