From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 23 17:38:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED4C516A404 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:38:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redchin@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BCEF13C4BD for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:38:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redchin@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g7so1751537muf for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:38:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=r7uDQNwoNnopxs4694/soQir8tR2YAsHTbc9eW7nVzwkhgvdEzeqJHMpYLWVX/R1QCVu00wVgHweConRflHFx7xDsl1vV1f8YHev+893xzOw2GVSZdNZoU2dZ9UBKVlonjRSVkJmCyOUihFmriw+d2gUgZJtoDtyDofD/ed32cQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XulSJ1fTNRXtl0lYbnZvxBqAJXz2CB1xu+bzlKZcKgRy90jCnRR/9vOjue19gjK4uIF/g1RsuO8KlDu1HOUpZ7XlliXbwDBQl0N+nh6ZWuYh/y8vAlTXvpWGQdfmZf4HY/LxInfQvP0jpqNLncBA3WSxM8yOfKgmHYLibhW6OS0= Received: by 10.82.114.3 with SMTP id m3mr7086020buc.1174671526373; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:38:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.119.10 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:38:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1d3ed48c0703231038s2df1401aw787bf4612a2a3424@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:38:46 -0700 From: "Kevin Downey" To: gnome@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <7fb728f20703230426s4fa5f451u682441ecfbdd736d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1d3ed48c0703221120w3dd52a1ao8d24fa206f22c02d@mail.gmail.com> <7fb728f20703230426s4fa5f451u682441ecfbdd736d@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Subject: Re: GDM thinks I am root X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:38:50 -0000 On 3/23/07, Timur Guseinov wrote: > try to change your home directory "chsh". > > > 2007/3/22, Kevin Downey : > > > > 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.