Re: gdm login problem

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Erdi Balint wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to login to gdm (with account f) but after a few seconds 
> (well, half a minute :) I get back the login screen. I succeeded to 
> login with an other account (account s) with no problem so I tried to 
> find a trace of this error in the logs, but have found absolutely 
> nothing.
>
> The only thing I can think of that can cause this problem is that I 
> saved a document as user s into the home directory of f but then 
> chown-ed this file to be owned by f.
>
> Could you help me out with this? First of all, where can I find a clue 
> about what might be causing this problem?
>
> thank you in advance,
> Balint
>
> ps. I even tried to login in Gnome failsafe mode but have experienced 
> exactly the same thing.

Try logging into a different window manager instead of Gnome.

Try logging in as a different user.

Try bypassing gdm altogether and login via "startx".

Depending on the results of the above tests, you'll know more, perhaps 
enough to solve the problem.

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Kent

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