Installing Cinnamon GUI over a headless server running on bare metal, with "dnf groupinstall cinnamon" After system reboot, system hangs with: [FAILED] Failed to start lightdm.service - Light Display manager [FAILED] Failed to start lightdm.service - Light Display manager [FAILED] Failed to start lightdm.service - Light Display manager [FAILED] Failed to start lightdm.service - Light Display manager [FAILED] Failed to start lightdm.service - Light Display manager [FAILED] Failed to start lightdm.service - Light Display manager No recovery possible, all boot entries, rescue included, ends up the same. No prompt available, system lost. ======== lightdm installation scriptlet logs: Running scriptlet: lightdm-1.32.0-9.fc40.x86_64 820/952 Installing : lightdm-1.32.0-9.fc40.x86_64 820/952 Running scriptlet: lightdm-1.32.0-9.fc40.x86_64 820/952 dbus-daemon: no process found Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service. ======== After running dnf reinstall lightdm after the first dnf transaction, the scriptlets do not log any problems, but lightdm still does not work. ======== lightdm log: [+0.00s] DEBUG: Could not run plymouth --ping: Failed to execute child process “plymouth” (No such file or directory) [+0.00s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Can't launch X server X -core -noreset, not found in path ======== Attaching: List of RPMs installed before the operation full log of the DNF operation installing Cinnamon DE full log of the lightdm generated once the system is booted Reproducible: - Always on Fedora 40 - Never on F39 and older
Created attachment 2033905 [details] list of installed RPMs on the system before the operation
Created attachment 2033906 [details] /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
Created attachment 2033907 [details] output of "dnf groupinstall cinnamon"
Setting severity to "urgent". I don't need to fix it urgently, but more fitting severity "critical" is not available in the list.
You need to install Xorg sudo dnf install xorg-x11-server-Xorg
FEDORA-2024-f87f79340d (lightdm-1.32.0-10.fc41) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 41. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-f87f79340d
FEDORA-2024-f87f79340d (lightdm-1.32.0-10.fc41) has been pushed to the Fedora 41 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-2024-1ce4a9482e (lightdm-1.32.0-10.fc40) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 40. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-1ce4a9482e
FEDORA-2024-1ce4a9482e has been pushed to the Fedora 40 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-1ce4a9482e` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-1ce4a9482e See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Thank you for the swift response and fix. I've tested the BODHI update and it really does fix the issue for me.
FEDORA-2024-1ce4a9482e (lightdm-1.32.0-10.fc40) has been pushed to the Fedora 40 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.