Why does user login fail with a gnome-settings-daemon crash on RHEL 7?
Issue
gnome-settings-daemon
crashes at user login.
Jan 15 15:27:28 localhost kernel: gnome-settings-[27004]: segfault at 7f7576f1dec0 ip 00007f7576f1dec0 sp 00007fffee8de3f8 error 14 in libnssdbm3.so[7f7577171000+20000]
Jan 15 15:27:28 localhost abrt-hook-ccpp[27067]: Process 27004 (gnome-settings-daemon) of user 1000 killed by SIGSEGV - ignoring (repeated crash)
- Can only login to the GNOME Desktop as
root
user, normal users get back to the login screen after entering password.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
- gnome-settings-daemon-3.22.2-5.el7.x86_64
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