> today, I've updated my fedora (from 2018-04-17, with
updates-testing).
> After reboot, I wasn't able to log in (session just crashed right after
> typing my password). The bug is already reported in BZ:
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1573683
>
> The reason of crash and actual fix for it is pretty weird:
> may 02 13:34:48 fanys-laptop gnome-session[1246]:
> gnome-session-binary[1246]: WARNING: Application
> 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings.desktop' killed by signal 5
> may 02 13:34:48 fanys-laptop gnome-session-binary[1246]: WARNING:
> Application 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings.desktop' killed by signal 5
> may 02 13:34:48 fanys-laptop gsd-xsettings[1960]: Settings schema
> 'org.cinnamon.desktop.a11y.applications' is not installed
> may 02 13:34:48 fanys-laptop systemd-coredump[1941]: Process 1798
> (gsd-xsettings) of user 42 dumped core.
> (stack trace [1])
>
>
> In order to fix this, I had to install cinnamon-desktop. After this, I was
> able to log in, both into Wayland an Xorg session. I never had
> cinnamon-desktop (or any other cinnamon package) installed on my PC. This
> fix worked at least on one another computer. I am currently unable to
> reproduce the issue.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1573546
The update that caused this was
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-37c3eca456 . It was
in updates-testing for 9 hours or so; just about any upgrade of a
Workstation install to F28 with u-t that happened during that time was
likely affected. Once Matthew and Kevin diagnosed the problem, I
unpushed the update. It never reached stable.
Removing caribou, installing cinnamon-settings-daemon, or updating to
the fixed caribou from
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-4c9e1c937c
should all resolve the issue.