Re: Login Problem
--- Libin Varghese <libinv@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> On my system I had 2 user root and xyz, while i was logged on as
> xyz
> on my gnome i changed my username to abc and logged on again. It
> gives
> me the following message.
>
> ****
> Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged
>
> out yourself this could mean that there is some problem with your
> installation or that you may be out of disksapce. Try logging with
> one
> of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix the problem.
> ****
>
> I dont think there is any installation problem as I could log on to
> xyz
> many a times before i changed it and I may definitaly not out of
> space
> (around 3 GB free space). I tried failsafe gnome, it gave me similar
> errors. What should i do to restore my system?
>
How did you change your username? My first guess is that when you log
in as abc it is looking for a home directory /home/abc and, not being
able to find it, ends the session immediately. Gnome (or maybe gdm or
xdm) is set to bring up a warning if there are unusually short
sessions.
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