Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 18:26:05 -0700 From: "Kevin Downey" <redchin@gmail.com> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM thinks I am root Message-ID: <1d3ed48c0704081826t44061639i7de021686cecc8cc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1174671891.46644.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1d3ed48c0703221120w3dd52a1ao8d24fa206f22c02d@mail.gmail.com> <7fb728f20703230426s4fa5f451u682441ecfbdd736d@mail.gmail.com> <1d3ed48c0703231038s2df1401aw787bf4612a2a3424@mail.gmail.com> <1174671891.46644.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On 3/23/07, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 10:38 -0700, Kevin Downey wrote: > > 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 > > 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 the exact text of the little error box that pops up is: The GNOME session manager was unable to lock the file '/root/.ICEauthority'. Please report this as a GNOME bug. Sometimes this error may occur if the file's directory is unwritable, you could try logging in via the failsafe session and ensuring that it is. My /usr/local/etc/gdm/custom.conf is blank because I deinstalled gdm, deleted all the directories pkg_delete said it could not completely delete, and reinstalled gdm. Ran a ktrace, but this is the first time I have used it so I am still trying to pick through the results. gdm appears to look at the .ICEauthority in the 'kpd' user's home directory. Then a few hundred lines later it tries the same file name, but in /root. -- The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.
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