From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 23 17:44:54 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 40A6E16A407 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:44:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (creme-brulee.marcuscom.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F1B213C448 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:44:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2NHja0l085667; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:45:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Kevin Downey In-Reply-To: <1d3ed48c0703231038s2df1401aw787bf4612a2a3424@mail.gmail.com> References: <1d3ed48c0703221120w3dd52a1ao8d24fa206f22c02d@mail.gmail.com> <7fb728f20703230426s4fa5f451u682441ecfbdd736d@mail.gmail.com> <1d3ed48c0703231038s2df1401aw787bf4612a2a3424@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ubAYC/iJ530y475cznR8" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:44:51 -0400 Message-Id: <1174671891.46644.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.0 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: gnome@freebsd.org 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 17:44:54 -0000 --=-ubAYC/iJ530y475cznR8 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 10:38 -0700, Kevin Downey wrote: > 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 What are the contents of your /usr/local/etc/gdm/custom.conf file? What are the permissions on /etc/passwd and /etc/pwd.db? You may need to ktrace or truss gdm as root when logging in as kpd to see if there are any obvious errors there. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-ubAYC/iJ530y475cznR8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGBBITb2iPiv4Uz4cRAhcOAKCUJ3jekiIKKLVeif06QP9s0YK+SwCfd5aN D75xxMrHQpmevaxqtGLfCYc= =/hST -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ubAYC/iJ530y475cznR8--