Frank Cox writes:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:27:32 -0700
> Greg Bailey wrote:
>
> > > >From the GDM login screen I enter my password and select Mate. The
> > > >screen
> > > >goes blank and appears to be loading the Mate desktop as usual, but just
> > > >at the point where the desktop should appear it returns to the GDM login
> > > >menu.
> > >
>
> > The only difference in my case is that I use lightdm from the
> > stenstorp/lightdm copr repo instead of GDM.
>
> Installing lightdm from the stenscorp/lightdm was indeed the fix.
>
> Now my desktop is back to looking and working like it's supposed to be.
>
> For the next guy who needs to do this, here are the exact commands needed:
>
> dnf copr enable stenstorp/lightdm
> dnf install lightdm
> systemctl disable gdm.service
> systemctl enable lightdm.service
>
> Then reboot. You'll probably have to select Mate from the drop-down list at
> the top right of the login screen but you only have to make that selection
> once.
>
> Thank you ever so much for the help, Greg!
I had the same experience with Rocky - not able to login after the update and
being returned to the login screen. In this case, the solution was to install
the latest vbox guest additions (this is a vbox VM). And I'm still using gdm.
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