# Error: No executable profiles could be found

**URL:** <https://community.thinlinc.com/t/error-no-executable-profiles-could-be-found/40>\
**Category:** Knowledge Base\
**Tags:** desktop, linux, thinlinc\
**Created:** [3 December 2020 09:09 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/error-no-executable-profiles-could-be-found/40 "2020-12-03T09:09:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [16 May 2025 09:32 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/error-no-executable-profiles-could-be-found/40/6 "2025-05-16T09:32:57Z")

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As RHEL10 and its derivatives have made further steps towards Wayland, this situation gets trickier under those distributions. I’ve published the following Knowledge Base article further detailing the problem:

> [@No executable profiles found on RHEL 10, AlmaLinux 10, and Rocky 10](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/no-executable-profiles-found-on-rhel-10-almalinux-10-and-rocky-10/1553):
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> Starting with version 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and RHEL-based distributions no longer include a traditional X server. Consequently, the /usr/share/xsessions/ files required by ThinLinc are not available through the standard package repositories. This will lead to the error “No executable profiles could be found” being shown during session startup. To work around this issue, you must manually create the entries under /usr/share/xsessions. Simply install the desktop environment in question an…

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