Login error - returns to login screen

[northpoint]

Alright, I have an issue. I have been trying to troubleshoot this but have reached a dead end and asking for some help.

I was trying to login to my centos 7.3 server. I provided my credentials at the main login screen and it fails to load up the desktop and returns to the login screen. Pretty weird. I can ssh into the box no problem and I can get to the login screen with teamviewer but have the same issue. So, I monitored the log - /var/log/messages - and I do see this:

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Oct  8 08:08:13 trex org.gnome.Shell.desktop: Window manager warning: "XF86RFKill" is not a valid accelerator
Oct  8 08:08:13 trex journal: Error looking up permission: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.NotFound: No entry for geolocation
Oct  8 08:08:14 trex journal: JS WARNING: [resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/layout.js 29]: reference to undefined property "MetaWindowX11"
Oct  8 08:08:15 trex journal: Screen lock is locked down, not locking

Now, Before this there was an error that the system was not finding the gnome-backgrounds. So, I had to install the backgrounds. I find it odd that they were not installed. After installing I was able to get to the login window after a reboot. Then I fail to login with the only error I can find is listed above.

Any help is appreciated.

[tunk]

7.3 is pretty old and insecure, an update to 7.5 may (or not) help.

[pjsr2]

The Gnome desktop needs a 3D accelerated graphics card.
Either your graphics card is not capable of 3D-accelleration, or the graphics driver that you have loaded is not capable of providing that acceleration.

Do you have an NVidia graphics card? If so, install the kmod-nvidia modules from ElRepo.

[northpoint]

The Gnome desktop needs a 3D accelerated graphics card.
Either your graphics card is not capable of 3D-accelleration, or the graphics driver that you have loaded is not capable of providing that acceleration.

Do you have an NVidia graphics card? If so, install the kmod-nvidia modules from ElRepo.

No Nvidia or 3d graphics in this server:

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VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200EH (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company iLO4
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, NUMA node 0
	Memory at bf000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at f77e0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Memory at f6800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
	Capabilities: [a8] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [b0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [c0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
	Kernel driver in use: mgag200
	Kernel modules: mgag200

This is a HP ML580 server

[northpoint]

Ok. Im on to something now on this issue:

Found this in the message log file:

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Oct  8 11:23:31 trex com.redhat.imsettings: E: Unable to open a log file: /home/coffee/.cache/imsettings/log
Oct  8 11:23:31 trex com.redhat.imsettings: E: Please check the permission on your $XDG_CACHE_HOME/imsettings/log

So, I went into the .cache folder and attempted to create a directory called 'log'.

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[coffee@trex ~]$ pwd
/home/coffee
[coffee@trex ~]$ cd .cache
[coffee@trex .cache]$ cd imsettings
[coffee@trex imsettings]$ ls
log.bak
[coffee@trex imsettings]$ mkdir log
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘log’: Disk quota exceeded
[coffee@trex imsettings]$ 

It appears I have a disk quota issue:

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/dev/sdb1 on /home type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbsize=256k,sunit=512,swidth=1024,usrquota,grpquota)

I do have disk quota on for users. Something got messed up a bit....

[northpoint]

Fixed it!

My quota for storage in the home directory had been reached. I removed a rather large backup of my 'daily driver' box and now things are working fine.