Hi. On Sat, 31 May 2025 14:53:50 -0500 Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: >> At the grub menu, add systemd.debug_shell to the kernel parameters. >> Suppress rhgb may also help. >> You will normally get a root shell on tty9. > Before I do this, do I need to have a root account set up? No. > I am able to get into one of these machines Thus forget systemd.debug_shell: this is simpler. Using SSH I guess. > and was able to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log. > Here it is: > https://paste.centos.org/view/f54fe5e6 Besides the EE slim.auth pointed by Todd, this log shows that Xorg terminates successfully after less than 2 seconds, without saying why: weird. > I also dumped journalctl -b, but that file is huge (85MB). I can > upload it, but what are the lines/parts we are looking for? I don't know slim, but being a display manager, it's him that starts Xorg. Look thus for slim traces in the journal, and also in it's logfiles: /var/log/slim.log -- francis -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue