You would need to find the log file that starts up Xorg after you login it.
There are a number of things that can be set wrong and/or missing that will cause Xorg to attempt to start and fail and exit like this. F39 puts the log file here on my machine. /var/log/Xorg.0.log On most of my machines I have it set to default to multi-user mode (no gui) and login as a user on the console and then type startx as that gives me a much easier way to debug the failure. it also lets me more easily boot up and login to console and fix/debug more basic boot up issue without being troubled to login to the gui. On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 12:30 AM Michael Hennebry <henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > > I just discovered something interesting: > None of the accounts on my machine will login with Xorg. > The option is offered, but is does not work. > For F40, I had selected gnome-classic with Xorg. > New accounts defaulted to gnome with Wayland. > When I made a new hennebry account, even with an old home directory, > it got the default and allowed me to login. > I infer that the option is not stored in the home directory. > > Not being able to use Xorg is not good news. > Last time I had trouble running videos, > part of the solution was switching to Xorg. > The rest, I think, was installing the H.264 decoder. > I found the thread, but it does not tell me the > name of the package or the name of the repo. > Also, I do not know whether videos will work for me with Wayland. > > -- > Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu > "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical > reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young > goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
