R: Re: F19: after upgrading I cant't login from gdm

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Wed Jul 3 15:33:25 UTC 2013


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On 07/03/2013 10:27 AM, antonio montagnani wrote:
> Andre Robatino ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 
> 03/07/2013 11:46:
>> antonio.montagnani <at> alice.it <antonio.montagnani <at>
>> alice.it> writes:
>> 
>>> that means that I have to install also Xcfe and/or kde. Do you
>>> think that
>> this could solve also the issue of Authentication failure when 
>> password is required inside a pop-window.Could I run Gnome in
>> fallback mode as in F18??
>> 
>> You don't have to install a new desktop, just the display
>> manager, which will let you log into any desktop. For example
>> 
>> yum install lightdm system-switch-displaymanager
>> 
>> system-switch-displaymanager lightdm
>> 
>> and then to see the new DM, you can either reboot, or run
>> "systemctl stop gdm" and "systemctl start lightdm" in a VT to get
>> it without rebooting.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> now I can log in, still I have the Authentication failure on
> password request when Gnome is running...


Log in as root on a virtual terminal (ctrl-alt-f2) and check
/var/log/secure for errors and tell us what it says.
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