Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:32:08AM -0500, Jeff Gipson wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:24:23PM +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: hi all, asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background image, WITHOUT the login box. i can see the background image (fireworks image), i can see my mouse cursor, and i can move my mouse around. but the login box is nowhere to be found. HOWEVER, if i make my computer sleep, then turn it on again, immediately the login box shows up and i can login without problem. i reinstalled my fedora 17, it's still like this. interestingly, when i install my fedora 17 as virtual machine (i use kvm), the problem doesn't show up at all. any help is appreciated. thank you :D ### End of Message from Fajrian Yunus ### This is *similar* to an issue I'm having (or had) with F16 and F17, and possible related. I get the login (GDM, I suppose) fine, but after entering my password, the login dialog disappears and I'm left with the fireworks background as well. No session starts. I have to kill X to get back out. I had to resort to using the multiuser.target and running startx. I've updated the OS via yum since the initial F17 upgrade, and reset the default.target to graphical.target, and haven't had the problem recur, but I'm not confident that the problem won't resurface. -- ×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-× Jeffrey A. Gipson ×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-× ### End of Message from Jeff Gipson ### Following up to my own message here; It turns out that my woes were caused by something in my bash_profile. Tmux. I was running 'tmux list-sessions' in bash_profile to notify me of any lingering tmux sessions when I login. Turns out that when I boot the system, login, open a gnome-terminal and start a tmux session, IF I don't end the tmux session before exiting the gnome-session then I can't get another gnome sessions, until I killall tmux or drop to multiuser.target, attach to my tmux session and close out the tmux session. This was never an issue when getting a gnome session via startx. Only when logging in via GDM. Someone else had this problem with F15: http://serverfault.com/questions/345179/how-to-debug-dotfiles-causing-gdm-login-to-gnome-3-to-fail HTH -- ×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-× Jeffrey A. Gipson ×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-× Rule of Simplicity: Design for simplicity; add complexity only where you must. -- Eric S. Raymond, The Art of Unix Programming smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up
Am Mittwoch, den 06.06.2012, 10:32 -0500 schrieb Jeff Gipson: On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:24:23PM +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: hi all, asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background image, WITHOUT the login box. i can see the background image (fireworks image), i can see my mouse cursor, and i can move my mouse around. but the login box is nowhere to be found. HOWEVER, if i make my computer sleep, then turn it on again, immediately the login box shows up and i can login without problem. i reinstalled my fedora 17, it's still like this. interestingly, when i install my fedora 17 as virtual machine (i use kvm), the problem doesn't show up at all. any help is appreciated. thank you :D ### End of Message from Fajrian Yunus ### This is *similar* to an issue I'm having (or had) with F16 and F17, and possible related. I get the login (GDM, I suppose) fine, but after entering my password, the login dialog disappears and I'm left with the fireworks background as well. No session starts. I have to kill X to get back out. I had to resort to using the multiuser.target and running startx. I've updated the OS via yum since the initial F17 upgrade, and reset the default.target to graphical.target, and haven't had the problem recur, but I'm not confident that the problem won't resurface. Hello , this similar to my issue - I am using F16 a Dell Laptop (Precision M4500) connected to the docking station and one external monitor. If I am booting kernel kernel-3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 all works fine. but if I boot kernel-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64 or kernel-3.3.6-3.fc16.x86_64 I do not see the Login Box. Reinhard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up
On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 00:06 +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: bingo, i think you are right when i started my computer with 1 monitor only, things work well. when i started my computer with both monitors, the following things happen: 1. at 1 screen, i can see the fireworks background image without the login box 2. at the other screen, i see faintly blinking black screen (dark gray actually, but that's probably just because the monitor is cheap old monitor) where can i log this bug? File it at bugzilla.redhat.com. I suspect it's actually either a kernel or video driver issue, so make sure to include complete information about your hardware (the easiest way to do this is to run smolt[1]). [1] Run yum install smolt-gui smoltGui Send the profile and attach the link it gives you to the BZ. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up
hi all, asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background image, WITHOUT the login box. i can see the background image (fireworks image), i can see my mouse cursor, and i can move my mouse around. but the login box is nowhere to be found. HOWEVER, if i make my computer sleep, then turn it on again, immediately the login box shows up and i can login without problem. i reinstalled my fedora 17, it's still like this. interestingly, when i install my fedora 17 as virtual machine (i use kvm), the problem doesn't show up at all. any help is appreciated. thank you :D -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:24:23PM +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: hi all, asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background image, WITHOUT the login box. i can see the background image (fireworks image), i can see my mouse cursor, and i can move my mouse around. but the login box is nowhere to be found. HOWEVER, if i make my computer sleep, then turn it on again, immediately the login box shows up and i can login without problem. i reinstalled my fedora 17, it's still like this. interestingly, when i install my fedora 17 as virtual machine (i use kvm), the problem doesn't show up at all. any help is appreciated. thank you :D ### End of Message from Fajrian Yunus ### This is *similar* to an issue I'm having (or had) with F16 and F17, and possible related. I get the login (GDM, I suppose) fine, but after entering my password, the login dialog disappears and I'm left with the fireworks background as well. No session starts. I have to kill X to get back out. I had to resort to using the multiuser.target and running startx. I've updated the OS via yum since the initial F17 upgrade, and reset the default.target to graphical.target, and haven't had the problem recur, but I'm not confident that the problem won't resurface. -- ×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-× Jeffrey A. Gipson ×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-× smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up
On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 22:24 +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: hi all, asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background image, WITHOUT the login box. i can see the background image (fireworks image), i can see my mouse cursor, and i can move my mouse around. but the login box is nowhere to be found. HOWEVER, if i make my computer sleep, then turn it on again, immediately the login box shows up and i can login without problem. i reinstalled my fedora 17, it's still like this. interestingly, when i install my fedora 17 as virtual machine (i use kvm), the problem doesn't show up at all. any help is appreciated. thank you :D That kind of sounds like your computer is starting up believing that there are two monitors attached (and that login should be happening on the *other* one), but sleep and wake properly resets the detection. I could be completely wrong, of course, but seeing the login background without the prompt is what happens to me when I boot my laptop attached to the monitor but forget to have the monitor tuned to the right input :) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up
oh yeah. i use 2 monitors indeed. let me try :D On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.comwrote: On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 22:24 +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: hi all, asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background image, WITHOUT the login box. i can see the background image (fireworks image), i can see my mouse cursor, and i can move my mouse around. but the login box is nowhere to be found. HOWEVER, if i make my computer sleep, then turn it on again, immediately the login box shows up and i can login without problem. i reinstalled my fedora 17, it's still like this. interestingly, when i install my fedora 17 as virtual machine (i use kvm), the problem doesn't show up at all. any help is appreciated. thank you :D That kind of sounds like your computer is starting up believing that there are two monitors attached (and that login should be happening on the *other* one), but sleep and wake properly resets the detection. I could be completely wrong, of course, but seeing the login background without the prompt is what happens to me when I boot my laptop attached to the monitor but forget to have the monitor tuned to the right input :) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up
bingo, i think you are right when i started my computer with 1 monitor only, things work well. when i started my computer with both monitors, the following things happen: 1. at 1 screen, i can see the fireworks background image without the login box 2. at the other screen, i see faintly blinking black screen (dark gray actually, but that's probably just because the monitor is cheap old monitor) where can i log this bug? On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Fajrian Yunus fajrian.yu...@gmail.comwrote: oh yeah. i use 2 monitors indeed. let me try :D On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.comwrote: On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 22:24 +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: hi all, asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background image, WITHOUT the login box. i can see the background image (fireworks image), i can see my mouse cursor, and i can move my mouse around. but the login box is nowhere to be found. HOWEVER, if i make my computer sleep, then turn it on again, immediately the login box shows up and i can login without problem. i reinstalled my fedora 17, it's still like this. interestingly, when i install my fedora 17 as virtual machine (i use kvm), the problem doesn't show up at all. any help is appreciated. thank you :D That kind of sounds like your computer is starting up believing that there are two monitors attached (and that login should be happening on the *other* one), but sleep and wake properly resets the detection. I could be completely wrong, of course, but seeing the login background without the prompt is what happens to me when I boot my laptop attached to the monitor but forget to have the monitor tuned to the right input :) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
