Why does a user is not able to login into RHEL7 system after changing display preferences?

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Issue

  • A user is not able to login into RHEL7 system in GNOME session, but the same user is able to login into KDE session.
  • When the user enters his login credentials, he is going back to the login prompt. Other users are able to login into gnome session.
  • The user started to face this issue when he was trying to change order of his monitors from gnome display settings.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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