F22 unusable - system freezes on login

Jonathan Dieter jdieter at lesbg.com
Sat Jun 20 18:16:56 UTC 2015


On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 17:04 -0400, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> On 2015-06-19 16:29, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > On 06/19/2015 01:13 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > > I'm increasingly unconvinced that it has anything whatsoever to 
> > > do with
> > > X. More like it can't start a login session. I'd guess that 
> > > recovery
> > > mode does something that's just a bit different, as that is 
> > > the*only*
> > > way I can get to a usable environment of any kind.
> > 
> > Have you tried creating a new user?
> 
> Yes. *No* user can log in. Not the user I created at install, not a
> newly created user, ***not root***.
> 
> The only way I can interact with the system *in any way* is in 
> emergency
> mode.

Forgive me if this has already been asked, but have you run fsck on
your filesystem?  Some of the things you've mentioned (corrupted
/var/log/messages) make me wonder whether something has happened to the
filesystem.

Jonathan



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