Created attachment 426211 [details]
Output of /var/log/Xorg.*.log

I don't see anything resembling Xorg crash in the logs you have kindly provided. Could it be something wrong with XFCE or gdm? Could you please attach whatever logs XFCE generates (I am not sure), complete /var/log/messages, and content of /var/log/gdm folder, please?

Thank you

Hi Matej,

Thanks for replying so quickly. I'll need to do a little research to find the Xfce logs, in the meantime here's some gdm ones. I had several log files in /var/log/gdm, and they are numbered. I've attached the last set (number 4), I assume this is the most recent, when I was able to log in successfully. For comparison I've added an earlier set, when there was a crash - note the empty slave log, dunno if that's significant?

Ignore the message about gnome-power-manager - that error always appears, because I use xfce-power-manager.

Thanks again for your help.

Created attachment 426263 [details]
gdm log (successful login)

Created attachment 426264 [details]
gdm log (greeter) (successful login)

Created attachment 426265 [details]
gdm log (slave) (successful login)

Created attachment 426266 [details]
gdm log (failed login resulting in blank screen)

Created attachment 426267 [details]
gdm log (greeter) (failed login)

Ok, Bugzilla won't let me attach the empty log file :0-slave.log.2, but possibly the fact that it was empty is significant.

Thanks
Nathan

General consensus here is a suspicion that you have incompletely installed system (did you installed it using kickstart or something like that?).

If you do

yum groupinstall "General Purpose Desktop" "Desktop"  "Internet Browser"

does it help?

(In reply to comment #10)
> General consensus here is a suspicion that you have incompletely installed
> system (did you installed it using kickstart or something like that?).
> 
> If you do
> 
> yum groupinstall "General Purpose Desktop" "Desktop"  "Internet Browser"
> 
> does it help?    

I am using the Xfce Spin (sorry, forgot to mention that in the initial post!).

Yum could not find any of the group packages you listed.

I'll email the Xfce SIG, perhaps they would be able to help - are there any specific packages you think might be missing?

Thanks again for the help!

(In reply to comment #11)
> (In reply to comment #10)
> > General consensus here is a suspicion that you have incompletely installed
> > system (did you installed it using kickstart or something like that?).
> > 
> > If you do
> > 
> > yum groupinstall "General Purpose Desktop" "Desktop"  "Internet Browser"
> > 
> > does it help?    
> 
> I am using the Xfce Spin (sorry, forgot to mention that in the initial post!).
> 
> Yum could not find any of the group packages you listed.

Could you try:

LC_ALL=C yum groupinstall "General Purpose Desktop" "Desktop"  "Internet Browser"

(In reply to comment #12)
> (In reply to comment #11)
> > (In reply to comment #10)
> > > General consensus here is a suspicion that you have incompletely installed
> > > system (did you installed it using kickstart or something like that?).
> > > 
> > > If you do
> > > 
> > > yum groupinstall "General Purpose Desktop" "Desktop"  "Internet Browser"
> > > 
> > > does it help?    
> > 
> > I am using the Xfce Spin (sorry, forgot to mention that in the initial post!).
> > 
> > Yum could not find any of the group packages you listed.
> 
> Could you try:
> 
> LC_ALL=C yum groupinstall "General Purpose Desktop" "Desktop"  "Internet
> Browser"    

I still get errors saying that the groups do not exist.

Shuut there is something wrong with groups in Rawhide. This is the list of packages contained in these groups on my RHEL-6:

PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin authconfig-gtk brasero-nautilus \
cheese compiz-gnome evince evince-dvi file-roller gcalctool gedit \
gnome-backgrounds gnome-bluetooth gnome-disk-utility gnome-power-manager \
gnome-system-monitor gnome-themes gnome-user-docs gnome-user-share \
gnome-utils gnote gthumb gucharmap gvfs-afc gvfs-gphoto2 gvfs-obexftp \
mousetweaks nautilus-open-terminal nautilus-sendto rhn-setup-gnome \
rhythmbox scenery-backgrounds seahorse sound-juicer system-config-firewall \
system-config-users totem totem-nautilus NetworkManager NetworkManager-gnome \
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio at-spi control-center dbus gdm gdm-user-switch-applet \
gnome-panel gnome-power-manager gnome-screensaver gnome-session \
gnome-terminal gvfs-archive gvfs-fuse gvfs-smb metacity nautilus \
notification-daemon polkit-gnome xdg-user-dirs-gtk yelp eog \
gdm-plugin-fingerprint gnome-applets gnome-media gnome-packagekit \
gnome-vfs2-smb gok openssh-askpass orca pulseaudio-module-gconf \
pulseaudio-module-x11 rhn-setup-gnome vino firefox nspluginwrapper \
totem-mozplugin

You may not want to have some of these packages, but it could be a good checklist to compare your list of installed apps against.

Is there something missing on your system? Does this list help?

Sorry to take so long to reply. I did some tests and finally managed to identify the cause - my rt8260 wireless driver was crashing and taking X with it. The driver isn't in the standard Fedora repos (got it from rpmfusion), so should I close this bug?

Thanks for the help,
Nathan

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