# Fail to run xfce after upgrade to Rocky 8.5
**URL:** https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/fail-to-run-xfce-after-upgrade-to-rocky-8-5/4617
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support
**Created:** [November 17, 2021, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/fail-to-run-xfce-after-upgrade-to-rocky-8-5/4617 "2021-11-17T21:02:28Z")
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### Author:  [@addw](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/addw)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/fail-to-run-xfce-after-upgrade-to-rocky-8-5/4617/1 "2021-11-17T21:02:28Z")
Machines installed Centos and a few months ago upgraded to Rocky without problems.
After the recent upgrade to 8.5 (ie yesterday, today) a user trying to login and expecting to run Xfce - cannot login. After typing the password there is a pause of about 15 seconds and the list of users is shown again.
I see in the release notes that there has been some work here …
> **[Chapter 4. New features Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Red Hat...](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/new-features#enhancement_desktop)**
>
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it referrs to /etc/accountsservice/user-templates/standard & /var/lib/AccountsService/users/user-name but playing with these does not do what it should.
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### Author:  [@jlehtone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jlehtone)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/fail-to-run-xfce-after-upgrade-to-rocky-8-5/4617/2 "2021-11-17T21:16:30Z")
The accountservice seems to be about setting _default_ session. Thus unrelated.
Have you looked at logs?
```auto
sudo journactl -xe
sudo less /var/log/messages
sudo less /var/log/secure
```
Do the other sessions (than xfce) operate normally?
Was there any issues on the `dnf upgrade`?
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### Author:  [@jorgy](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jorgy)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/fail-to-run-xfce-after-upgrade-to-rocky-8-5/4617/3 "2021-11-19T00:35:31Z")
Hello,
I am having the same problem. I dnf upgraded a RL 8.4 to 8.5, and there weren’t any warnings.
In /var/log/messages, I saw this:
```auto
Nov 18 22:40:55 morris gdm[1768]: Gdm: GdmDisplay: Session never registered, failing
Nov 18 22:40:57 morris systemd-logind[1324]: Session 10 logged out. Waiting for processes to exit.
Nov 18 22:40:57 morris systemd[1]: session-10.scope: Succeeded.
Nov 18 22:40:57 morris systemd-logind[1324]: Removed session 10.
Nov 18 22:40:58 morris org.gnome.Shell.desktop[9983]: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
Nov 18 22:40:58 morris org.gnome.Shell.desktop[9983]: > Warning: Unsupported maximum keycode 569, clipping.
Nov 18 22:40:58 morris org.gnome.Shell.desktop[9983]: > X11 cannot support keycodes above 255.
Nov 18 22:40:58 morris org.gnome.Shell.desktop[9983]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
```
There were other messages from gdm, but didn’t seem relevant. The entire session log from /var/log/messages is here:
[https://pastebin.com/gXtTEnvq](https://pastebin.com/gXtTEnvq)
Thanks,
jorgy
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### Author:  [@addw](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/addw)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/fail-to-run-xfce-after-upgrade-to-rocky-8-5/4617/4 "2021-11-19T17:03:44Z")
A bit more digging and I found in /var/log/messages:
/usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[119565]: /usr/libexec/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server
I created the file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config with content:
allowed\_users = anybody
and it all works nicely.
I had been fiddling so I do not know if any of the stuff below is also needed.
I note: [https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red\_hat\_enterprise\_linux/8/html/8.5\_release\_notes/new-features#enhancement\_desktop](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/new-features#enhancement_desktop)
This talks about /var/lib/AccountsService/users/user-name
This contains:
[com.redhat.AccountsServiceUser.System]
id=‘rocky’
version-id=‘8.5’
[User]
Language=en\_GB.UTF-8
Session=xfce
SessionType=x11
Icon=/home/addw/.face
SystemAccount=false
So, the question is what should Xorg.wrap contain ?
Is it because xfce uses X and not Waylan ?
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### Author:  [@jotatb](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jotatb)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 5:56pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/fail-to-run-xfce-after-upgrade-to-rocky-8-5/4617/5 "2021-11-19T17:56:30Z")
I run MATE on Rocky Linux and the same happened to me. I fixed it by typing this on a Terminal:
sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target
Hope that helps.
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### Author:  [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2023, 4:01am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/fail-to-run-xfce-after-upgrade-to-rocky-8-5/4617/6 "2023-08-25T04:01:10Z")