F22 unusable - system freezes on login

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 2015-06-18 17:16, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 06/18/2015 01:52 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> On 2015-06-18 14:04, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>>> On 06/18/2015 12:54 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>>> (¹ *Once and only once* I was able to log in, but the system froze as
>>>> soon as I tried to run an application. Also, I can log in in
>>>> single-user
>>>> mode, but this isn't good for much but running dnf and fiddling with
>>>> enabled services. I *have* applied all updates as of a few hours ago to
>>>> no effect.)
>>>
>>>   do you have a choice of logins, like KDE/gnome??
>>> maybe you didn't allow enough space for root..
>>
>> Does "TTY" count? I'd be quite surprised if changing DE works when I
>> can't log in at a TTY either. It *might* be kdm, though I don't claim to
>> know how to change that.
>>
>> BTW, 'systemctl start graphical.target' from single-user mode also kills
>> the system.
> 
> Then you definitely have a graphics issue. Bring it up in single user
> mode and have a look at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file to see if there's
> anything that might point to an issue. I had an issue on one machine
> with nouveau on a specific video card. Using an nVidia binary blob
> driver overcame that.

It's an AMD (GPU, not CPU). Anyway, I am allergic to proprietary
software :-).

Nothing in any of the Xorg.*.log*'s jumps out at me.
~user/.xsession-errors is empty.

-- 
Matthew