Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:20:39 -0700 From: "Kevin Downey" <redchin@gmail.com> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: GDM thinks I am root Message-ID: <1d3ed48c0703221120w3dd52a1ao8d24fa206f22c02d@mail.gmail.com>
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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? -- The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.
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