Gnome login hangs F20 after fedup upgrade

[David Highley]

"David Highley wrote:"
> 
> "Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:"
> > 
> > On 21.12.2013 20:40, David Highley wrote:
> > > We upgraded a test system to Fedora 20 using the fedup process. There
> > > were 60 packages that were left from Fedora 19 after the upgrade that
> > > were subsequently fixed by doing a yum distro-sync. Since the upgrade we
> > > are not able to login into a Gnome session. We select the user in the
> > > greater and it prompts for the pass word. After that it goes to the
> > > grayed background and hangs leaving the user session in a hung state
> > > where you have cursor control but the session setup does not get to the
> > > point where you can select anything.
> > > 
> > > We have checked the logs and see nothing in the logs that indicate an
> > > issue. The other change noticed is the monitor never goes to sleep when
> > > the greater screen is active.
> > > 
> > 
> > Does systemctl restart gdm.service from text shell help you restore
> > system responsiveness? It might be some problem with gnome-shell or
> > Xorg, I'm facing similar behavior from time to time on fresh installation.
> 
> Same recovery as doing init 3 init 5 you get back to the Gnome greater
> screen with the session ended. We have looked at the Xorg log files and
> see nothing wrong in them. Our case is not intermittent. We have tried
> both VGA and HDMI connections and get the same results. We have also
> reviewed dmesg and the /var/log/message log files. Nothing seems to get
> logged. We have checked for selinux avc issues and tried login in
> selinux Permissive mode. Second check just now indicates that a
> systemctl restart gdm.service gets us back to the Gnome greater screen
> but then we were not able to select a user for login.
> 

We see by using journalctl -f | less
That the shell fails to register before a timeout occurs and that there
is a kernal pool segfault and a core dump. We have not been able to
determine if they are all related. Except they happen close together.

> > 
> > 
> > Mateusz Marzantowicz
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