SOLVED: Can't Start GDM (OpenSSL version mismatch.)

[Scotchman]

First noticed last night trying to switch users and log into a second account.  I had installed  a couple programs in Wine and the some GPS programs from the repo. All seemed well.

I rebooted today and now can not access any accounts through X.

I DO have access to them through the shell by CA-f2 from the login prompt. I have 20Gb free so that eliminates one problem.

Here is what I get. Can anyone help me out please?

ERROR DIALOGUE WHEN ATTEMPTING TO LOG IN:

"Your Session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or that you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem."

~/.xsessions-errors

/etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession GNOME
OpenSSL version mismatch. Built against 1000004f, you have 1000105f

[agmg]

Are you using PASS?
Did you update openssl?

Read this announcement: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,113264.0.html

[Scotchman]

yes I am using PASS (Just got it last week). I do not believe that I updated update openSSL (If I did then it was during an upgrade in Synaptic yesterday but I did not read the list). Perhaps it broke during upgrade or something?

If you have any ideas? I know about apt-get but don't use it. So if you can talk me through it?

I finally switched to PCLOS as my full OS last fall and this has been fun and educational. Was nice dumping MS Office!

So, what should I try?

[agmg]

pinoc has posted instructions that I believe are very straightforward.

Quoting here for your convenience:

b) if you have done a logout or reboot after the upgrade
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trying to login will return you immediately to the login window

-reboot and at the grub boot menu press the F3 key which will open a little window with the value Default preselected, press the Enter key and you will see a command line at the bottom of the screen.
- scroll to the end of that line and enter a space and the number 3, so the end of that line reads:

splash=silent vga=788 3

then press the Enter key.
- when the boot process has finished login as user root and enter your root-password
- then enter these 4 commands:

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apt-get update

rpm -e --nodeps libopenssl1.0.0 libopenssl-devel libopenssl-engines1.0.0 openssl

apt-get install --fix-broken -y

init 6

Try that solution and come back if this doesn't work.
After each command in terminal, you have to press enter.

I'm currently not affected by this issue because I didn't update yesterday so I can't provide a more detailed guide.

[Scotchman]

Pointing to Pinocs Original post:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,113264.0.html

I'm still not there but am moving to the main topic thread.

Thank you for helping and I guess that I should have checked the news section first but I assumed that I had done something wrong.

[Scotchman]

All fixed. See Pinocs original thread above. I only had to change the rpm line to:

rpm -e --nodeps libopenssl1.0.0 libopenssl-engines1.0.0 openssl

Just removed 'libopenssl-devel' as I did not have it installed.


Back up and running!