On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:56:30PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote: > I had everything working - almost. So, naturally, I messed it up. > Ah, you must be a true geek...repair it until it's broken...:) > I was seeing results that looked as though my login scripts -- > specifically /etc/profile -- were not being executed. As it turned > out, that wasn't the problem. > > However, before I found the real problem, I went and touched the > /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default script. Thereafter, nothing seems to make > gdm work. I purged it, made sure /etc/gdm was gone, re-installed it --- > failure! I re-installed EVERYTHING gnome-xxx plus gdm, gdm-themes --- > failure! That seems to indicate that you touched something else...??? > > The failure is of a very wierd type. I boot to "starting gdm." > The display driver puts up the nVIdia splash, then clears to grey; it > paints the background of the login dialog -- a light grey box with a > white spot where the "username" input will be. Then there is a > painfully long delay. While I'm waiting, I can move the mouse cursor > around, and it changes when it passes over the input-box-to-be. > After maybe as much as five MINUTES delay, the dialog foreground gets > painted. However, it does not accept input either from the keyboard or > from clicking mouse buttons. Do you have any kind of firewall installed? > > In a state of desperation, I swiched my default-display-manager to > xdm. Now I have a new set of problems: xdm will not validate any > "normal" username. I really do know my password, but it gives me > Login Invalid. Just to make sure, I had my wife try it and she could > not log in either. However, it does let me in as "root" -- proving > something, I'm not sure what. At least it proves that both keyboard and > mouse are functioning, even if gdm doesn't want to listen to them. > > That leaves me with all the reasons it is a bad thing to log into X as > root. Especially, I can't run X applications successfully under other > usernames. That has made a real mess of my email archive!!! A way to getting your mail (and whatever else) from a root x-session (not that I am saying you should run X as root!!!): login: ssh -X user@localhost and then starting your x-application from the command line should give you access to your mail > > Can anyone help me out of this mess?? > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmaster@lists.debian.org -- Andreas Rippl -- I prefer encrypted mail
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