Hangs after login using GUI on Fedora 24

dx486 · 08-28-2016, 08:13 AM

I recently installed Fedora 24. It was working nicely. Today a big software upgrade happened. Now I can't log in. After login screen mouse cursor and everything disappear, just the background image of login screen remains.

CTRL ALT 1 takes me back to the login prompt and there I can give restart command using GUI.

CTRL ALT 2 takes me to the terminal. There I checked the logs with

Code:

journalctl --sytem

but I did not notice anything extraordinaly wrong.

Now on GRUB menu I have another kernel version as an option. There are 3 Fedora options, 2 different kernels and 1 rescue mode. All of them takes me to the same result.

Kernel versions: 4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64 and 4.6.7-300.fc24.x86_64.

I can't use my computer using Fedora now. I use Windows (via dual boot) to write this message.

This is a Toshiba Portege notebook with i7-5500 CPU and Intel HD 5500 GPU.

I would appreciate if you can help me diagnose and solve this fatal problem. Thank you.

Edit 1:

CTRL ALT F2 does not open terminal. Just same screen.
CTRL ALT F3 opens the terminal.

lspci tells me that Intel HD Graphics 5500 Rev 89 is in use.

Edit 2:

journalctl --user shows a message several times: "AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch"

Edit 3:

I have read online that the message above (regarding VT switch) is about CTRL ALT combinations and probably not related to my issue.

I understand that because this error happens after I enter my login password, error should be in Gnome session logs. I learned that Gnome sessions logs are kept in the journal.

journalctl SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=gnome-session

shows them. I checked and saw this error message several times:

WARNING: App 'spice-vdagent.desktop' exited with error code 1
gnome-sessions-binary[1394]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed.

Edit 4:

Well, I guess this is a bug and it is already reported here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367215

unSpawn · 09-04-2016, 07:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dx486

I recently installed Fedora 24. It was working nicely. Today a big software upgrade happened. Now I can't log in.

First of all thanks for posting your updates, much appreciated. If you can get to a terminal window: 'sudo dnf history list | grep Update;' then the first column is the Id so try 'sudo dnf history undo Id;'? (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US...n_History.html)