Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:38:46 -0700 From: "Kevin Downey" <redchin@gmail.com> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM thinks I am root Message-ID: <1d3ed48c0703231038s2df1401aw787bf4612a2a3424@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7fb728f20703230426s4fa5f451u682441ecfbdd736d@mail.gmail.com> References: <1d3ed48c0703221120w3dd52a1ao8d24fa206f22c02d@mail.gmail.com> <7fb728f20703230426s4fa5f451u682441ecfbdd736d@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/23/07, Timur Guseinov <timtch@gmail.com> wrote: > try to change your home directory "chsh". > > > 2007/3/22, Kevin Downey <redchin@gmail.com>: > > > > I have a laptop running 6.2-STABLE and modular Xorg, I have been > > having trouble logging in using gdm for sometime, but with the new > > gnome I get a more informative error message (how is that for > > progress). When I log in a little window pops up and says something > > like "cannot write to /root/.ICEauthority" which makes sense, because > > I am not logging in as root so I should not be able to write to that. > > What I can't figure out is why it is trying. Gnome then fails to > > start. If I pick the 'Xclients' session from GDM a little window pops > > up that says 'no Xclients file, launching failsafe terminal' so I get > > a xterm. In the xterm 'whoami' returns 'kpd' (my user) but 'echo > > $HOME' is '/root'. > > Any ideas? > > My home directory is set correctly to /home/kpd (kpd is my username), if I login any other way I am not given a /root home directory, if I login on the console and put gnome-session in my .xinitrc file gnome starts up fine with the correct home directory -- The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.
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