SELinux preventing lightdm to login

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 21:29:23 UTC 2015


Hi Derrik,

On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 03:10:54PM -0500, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote:
> On 1/7/15 14:49, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> >
> >I just updated from F20 to F21, and I cannot login to my desktop.  I use
> >XFCE with Lightdm.  I looked at the journal, this is what I found:
> >
> >Without a gui, I cannot quite search the Internet easily for open bugs.
> >Any thoughts how I should proceed?
> >
> If you can log in as root somehow, which you seem  able to since you got the
> journal output, you should be able to put SELinux in permissive mode, which
> will allow you to log in.  Remember, to make it cross reboots, you'll need
> to set it in the conf file too.

Nice idea!  Thank you :).

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Suvayu

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