Fedora 16: first login fails, second login works

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Running Fedora 16 3.2.3-2.fc16.x86-64 on box with Intel Q8200 cpu. Login problem also occurred when I was running version 3.2.2-1. Exactly the same symptoms. Selinux is running in permissive mode and the file system was relabeled on the off chance that this might help. It did not.

It is possible the the problem is related to the installation of an HP printer using the hplip driver, since it started on the first reboot after that installation. But that is probably just be a coincidence.

After the login problem started to occur, and I read various other posts, I noticed and fixed the problem that /etc/shells did not show /bin/bash and /bin/sh. But after that fix, the login problem still happened.

The first login can be for any user (there are three). I created a new user Parkie who has nothing but a home directory and a new uid. The .xsession.errors for the first login (which was for user Parkie) is seen in the attachment xsession.errors.1.txt.

The second login attempt was for user mike instead of Parkie. User mike has quite a bit of stuff under his home directory and a number of hidden files for various things such as thunderbird, google-chrome, etc.
On this login attempt, the desktop appeared without any fuss or muss. The contents of xession.errors for the second login are found in the attachment xsession.errors.2.txt

Just in case it might have a clue in it, I have attached messages.txt which has the contents of the last 226 lines of var/log/messages as it was after the first login attempt.

Except for the nuisance and the time, as far as I can tell, the second login really works; I can print a test page to the printer. Everything else seems to be functioning properly.

Anyone got any ideas as to what might be causing this kind of behavior?

And of course, anyone got any ideas of how to fix this?

[bobatlcpmbdx]

I have a similar problem.
When I start up I get a screen that says something like "Oh No there seems to be a problem....."
It says the system has a problem it cannot recover from and I should log out and try again.
On second try i.e. log out and in again without a powerdown I can log in ok
If I powerdown I get the message again.

I had installed autoplus from dnmouse.org and used the auto login for my only (non root) user. This was working fine.

Two events occurred just before this started:-
1. I am having difficutlies networking with nfs4 with my laptop since upgrading to fedora 16 - worked fine on 14. I use the same username on both machines but had set up the laptop with a different password. I thought this may have been the problem with nsf4 so I changed this one to match the laptop password.
2. I also have problems printing over the network since upgrading so I re-installed the latest HPLIP software. and reinstalled the printer.

Thinking the login problem was to do with the auto login I used autoplus to uninstall it.

It now prompts as expected for user and password then I get the error screen as above so I suspect it is not auto login that is causing the problem.

I am going to check my messages and .xsession.errors files to see if there are any similarities.

3.2.3-2.fc16.x86_64 on Acer Aspire L3600 Intel Core 2 Duo processor. Selinux is disabled

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With respect to your nfs problems, you might want to take a look at the note I posted giving the details on how I dealt with the F14 to F16 nfs setup. The link is at

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=275392

As one of the replies to that post indicated, there is more than one way to cope with nfs, but what I described has always worked for me. It may be old-fashioned, but it is pretty reliable.

As to your login problem, it sounds identical to mine. Right now, I just login in twice. As I said before, a nuisance, not very pretty, but it seems to work.