Fedora-38 on RPi4 (aarch64) XFCE second login hangs at white screen

netllama · 2023-08-06 19:46:18

I’m running Fedora38 on a Raspberry Pi 4 (aarch64), with XFCE and all OS updates applied.

The first time logging into XFCE (with either LightDM or LXDE) works fine, zero issues, the desktop is usable.

After logging out and/or rebooting and trying to log in a second time, it accepts my username & password, then goes to a white screen, with just the mouse pointer. No response to any mouse click events (left, right or middle), and after waiting an hour, it remains stuck at this white screen. If I manually blow away the config ( ~/.config ) then XFCE works fine again. Until the next attempt, when its broken all over again. I created a dummy user to test and it exhibits the same problem. Even root has the same problem (which should prove its not some weird permissions issue).

I’m not changing or configuring anything during the first login. Login, immediately log out, login a second time, and its broken with the white screen again. There’s nothing in ~/.xsession-errors .

I’m not really sure what else to check.

ToZ · 2023-08-06 23:52:23

netllama wrote:

There’s nothing in ~/.xsession-errors .

Is there something there on a successful login?

Look for other log files - if this set up runs systemd, have a look at:

journalctl --user

...and press the "End" key to get to the end of the log file.

Lightdm also has log files (maybe /var/log/lightdm).

netllama · 2023-08-07 01:15:14

ToZ wrote:

netllama wrote:
There’s nothing in ~/.xsession-errors .
Is there something there on a successful login?
Look for other log files - if this set up runs systemd, have a look at:
journalctl --user
...and press the "End" key to get to the end of the log file.
Lightdm also has log files (maybe /var/log/lightdm).

Not seeing much useful:

Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.69] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[GetVersion]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.69] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[IsSupportedDesktop]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: [ 49.107232]: IMSettings-Daemon[1954]: WARNING **: Child process exited with code 1
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.71] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[GetVersion]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.71] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[DumpModuleSettings]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.72] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[GetVersion]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.72] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[DumpModuleSettings]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.74] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[GetVersion]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.74] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[DumpModuleSettings]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.75] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[GetVersion]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.75] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[DumpModuleSettings]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.81] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[GetVersion]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.81] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[DumpModuleSettings]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.82] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[GetVersion]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.82] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[DumpModuleSettings]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.83] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[GetVersion]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.83] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[DumpModuleSettings]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.84] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[GetVersion]
Aug 06 18:13:49 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.84] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[DumpModuleSettings]
Aug 06 18:13:53 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.93] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[GetVersion]
Aug 06 18:13:53 fedora systemd[1872]: tracker-extract-3.service: Consumed 4.034s CPU time.
Aug 06 18:13:53 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.93] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[IsSupportedDesktop]
Aug 06 18:13:53 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: [ 53.371980]: IMSettings-Daemon[1954]: WARNING **: Child process exited with code 1
Aug 06 18:13:53 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.93] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[DumpModuleSettings]
Aug 06 18:13:53 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.93] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[CanXDisplayOpen]
Aug 06 18:13:53 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: [ 53.397793]: IMSettings-Daemon[1954]: INFO: X Display is available
Aug 06 18:13:53 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.93] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[GetInfoVariant]
Aug 06 18:13:53 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: imsettings_server_bus_method_call: sender[:1.93] path[/com/redhat/imsettings] iface[com.redhat.imsettings] method[SwitchIMNoDesktopDetection]
Aug 06 18:13:53 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: [ 53.656743]: IMSettings-Daemon[1954]: INFO: Attempting to switch IM to none [lang=en_US.UTF-8, desktop=XFCE, update=false]
Aug 06 18:13:53 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: [ 53.956695]: IMSettings-Daemon[1954]: WARNING **: Child process exited with code 1
Aug 06 18:13:53 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: [ 53.961973]: IMSettings-Daemon[1954]: INFO: no need to invoke any auxiliary process for none
Aug 06 18:13:53 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: [ 53.962414]: IMSettings-Daemon[1954]: INFO: no need to invoke any main process for none
Aug 06 18:13:53 fedora imsettings-daemon[1954]: [ 53.963249]: IMSettings-GSettings backend[1954]: INFO: Setting up gtk-im-context-simple:xim as gtk+ immodule
Aug 06 18:13:57 fedora systemd[1872]: Starting tracker-extract-3.service - Tracker metadata extractor...
Aug 06 18:13:58 fedora systemd[1872]: Started tracker-extract-3.service - Tracker metadata extractor.

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#1 2023-08-06 19:46:18

Fedora-38 on RPi4 (aarch64) XFCE second login hangs at white screen

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Re: Fedora-38 on RPi4 (aarch64) XFCE second login hangs at white screen

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Re: Fedora-38 on RPi4 (aarch64) XFCE second login hangs at white screen

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