Bug 752444

Summary: i915 failed to start gnome shell
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Marcus Moeller <marcus.moeller>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intelAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Marcus Moeller 2011-11-09 14:32:22 UTC 
gnome-shell does not start on a system with an i915 graphics card.

Kernel Version: 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 

mesa-libGL-7.11-10.fc16.x86_64
mesa-libGLU-7.11-10.fc16.x86_64
mesa-libGL-7.11-10.fc16.i686
mesa-libGLU-7.11-10.fc16.i686
mesa-dri-drivers-7.11-10.fc16.x86_64
mesa-dri-filesystem-7.11-10.fc16.x86_64

xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.16.0-2.fc16.x86_64
Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2011-11-09 15:58:07 UTC 
Which hardware exactly?  lspci -nn -s 0:2.

What's the output of glxinfo?  Is there anything suspicious in the X log?
Comment 2 Marcus Moeller 2011-11-10 14:18:26 UTC 
I figured out that the problem was caused by either missing:

account     sufficient    pam_localuser.so

or

-session     optional      pam_systemd.so

in system-auth-ac. Adding these new parameters made gnome-shell work again.