So I installed F16 Beta on a low end box and deselected GNOME and selected XFCE in the installer. System installed but gdm does not complete its startup. Looking in the error messages in /var/log/gdm I see a lot of repeating error messages:
** (gnome-settings-daemon:1125): WARNING **: Connection failed, reconnecting...
setting the system to setenforce 0 and killing 1125 did not fix the issue so I don;'t think it is selinux related. There are messages in /var/log/messages stating:
Oct 5 09:09:03 emachine01 dbus-daemon[916]: ** (polkitd:930): DEBUG: user of caller is unix-user:root Oct 5 09:09:03 emachine01 dbus-daemon[916]: ** (polkitd:930): DEBUG: user of subject is unix-user:gdm Oct 5 09:09:03 emachine01 dbus-daemon[916]: ** (polkitd:930): DEBUG: checking whether system-bus-name::1.41 is authorized for org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate Oct 5 09:09:03 emachine01 dbus-daemon[916]: ** (polkitd:930): DEBUG: 0x1678e60 Oct 5 09:09:03 emachine01 dbus-daemon[916]: ** (polkitd:930): DEBUG: subject is in session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (local=1 active=0) Oct 5 09:09:03 emachine01 dbus-daemon[916]: ** (polkitd:930): DEBUG: not authorized Oct 5 09:09:03 emachine01 dbus-daemon[916]: ** (polkitd:930): DEBUG:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743596
On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:25:00 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
So I installed F16 Beta on a low end box and deselected GNOME and selected XFCE in the installer. System installed but gdm does not complete its startup. [....]
See my thread on the fedora general list beginning Sunday and titled "SL6 to F16??" which turned into one about xfce. Briefly, the answer there turned out to be this:
ssh into the unfinished startup and do init 3 (or get into level 3 any other way you can). At your user prompt, type "startxfce4" and hit enter.