Re: Failed SDDM Login to KDE Plasma for a Specific User

2017-09-21 Thread Bob Jackson
The pointer by Pete toward a more global approach was helpful and led me to run a 'fixfiles check'. This revealed lots of contexts needing restoration, particularly in my home directory. Seems to suggest that running fixfiles is a good preventive measure to perform regularly. It was also

Re: Failed SDDM Login to KDE Plasma for a Specific User

2017-09-20 Thread Bill Shirley
The trouble with the instructions: # ausearch -c 'sddm-helper' --raw | audit2allow -M my-sddmhelper # semodule -X 300 -i my-sddmhelper.pp is the 1st time it can fail on file 'open'.  When you do the above and 'open' is allowed but then get shot down when your program tries to 'write',

Re: Failed SDDM Login to KDE Plasma for a Specific User

2017-09-20 Thread Pete Travis
On Sep 20, 2017 10:57 AM, "Bob Jackson" wrote: Have a Fedora 26 laptop which I update on a weekly basis by sudo from my regular account. After applying a batch of updates, including a new kernel, I rebooted. At the login screen I entered my standard login credentials but

Failed SDDM Login to KDE Plasma for a Specific User

2017-09-20 Thread Bob Jackson
Have a Fedora 26 laptop which I update on a weekly basis by sudo from my regular account. After applying a batch of updates, including a new kernel, I rebooted. At the login screen I entered my standard login credentials but Plasma did not launch and it dropped back to the login screen. I