Desktop Does Not Start Up

[Richard Ibbotson]

Hi

I thought I should reply to this one due to the fact that I think that 
no one else is going to work it out... Would be useful to leave this 
in the Fedora Users archive....

> I did a dnf update on my F23 workstation. After rebooting to make
> sure that  the updates were working properly I find that I can't get
> to the login screen.  I see the blue Fedora logo for a split second.
> Then the command line appears with a message to do Ctrl-D or login 
as
> root. Nouveau drivers for the graphics card.  I can login as root 
and
> use a text editor.  After the failed X startup  I can  see the
> following error message on the screen
> 
> Error getting authority: Error initialization authority: Could not 
> connect: No such file or directory (g-io-error-quark, 1)
> 
> If I have a look at the log in /home/user/.local/share/xorg it 
says...
> 
> Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 1 
> (Permission 
> denied.
> If I try startx as as a user or as root I can see.. for example... 
in 
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log...
> 
> dbus core: error connecting to system bus: 
> org.freedesktop.Dbus.Error.FileNotFound (Failed to connect to socket 
> /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory)
> 
> Can anyone suggest how to fix this ? I can't send in lengthy logs due 
> to the fact that I can't ssh into the machine or run a second or
> third console. Access to one console only. 

The answer this one is....

https://askubuntu.com/questions/631362/error-getting-authority-error-initializing-authority-could-not-connect-no-suc

“ Add the option nofail to the failing mount point or all the mount 
points that are not required at boot time. “ That fixed it. Working fine 
now :)

Thank you.

-- 
Richard
Sheffield UK