Fedora 19, KDE 4.11.1, no login screen

Anthony Messina amessina at messinet.com
Sun Sep 22 08:01:12 UTC 2013


On Saturday, September 21, 2013 07:34:42 PM andrea wrote:
> > [FAILED] Wait for Plymouh Boot Screen to quit
> >
> > 
> >
> > and in /var/log/messages
> >
> > 
> >
> > there is something about
> >
> > 
> >
> > Sep 21 15:24:35 localhost kdm[335]: plymouth --ping -> 0
> > Sep 21 15:24:35 localhost kdm[335]: plymouth is running ...
> > Sep 21 15:24:35 localhost kdm[335]: plymouth deactivate -> 0
> > Sep 21 15:24:35 localhost kdm[335]: plymouth --has-active-vt -> 0
> > Sep 21 15:24:35 localhost kdm[335]: plymouth should quit when server
> > starts
> > Sep 21 15:24:36 localhost kdm[335]: plymouth is active on VT 1, reusing
> > for :0 Sep 21 15:24:36 localhost kdm[335]: X server startup timeout,
> > terminating Sep 21 15:24:36 localhost kdm[335]: X server for display :0
> > cannot be started, session disabled>
> > 
> >
> > any idea?
> >
> > 
> 
> in the end something damaged in /var/log/journal
> 
> google it, it turned out that some services took too long to start.
> not too sure, but renaming that folder fixed it.

What did you find "damaged" in /var/log/journal?  I ask because I see this KDM 
failure as well, only on one of my machines, but journalctl --verify passes 
with flying colors.  Also, when I issue systemctl restart display-manager 
after the initial failure, KDM starts properly.

-A

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