On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 08:31 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
I ran yum update this morning, getting a gazillion updates.
I rebooted the system.
When it came back up, I couldn't log in. I'd get a KDM screen,
login, then immediately get the KDM screen again.
I tried to login with a "failsafe" session which gave me
(apparently) an xterm that printed black rectangles
for all characters :-).
I tried other sessions like xfce and gnome and got the
same KDM login screen popping back up after I typed
my password.
I got in a vterm as root, created a new user, and
logged in as that user with a default gnome session.
That seemed to work fine. I decided I should compare
what is running in the session with my original
user, so I logged out and logged in again as original
user, and now my original user login works fine.
Logging in once as a different user appears to have
completely fixed the system.
What the heck was that? (It will be interesting to
see if the same sequence happens when I install the
latest updates at home).
Glad I'm not the only one with a problem!
kdm and xfce
I have two workarounds
From Cont/Alt/F2 window as root
systemctl disable kdm.service
systemctl stop kdm.service
systemctl enable lightdm.service
systemctl start lightdm.service
OR
yum downgrade kdm libkworkspace kgreeter-plugins kde-workspace \
kde-workspace-libs kcm_colors kde-style-oxygen
I will try your solution next
John