Unable to log in user - This gets serious

[Truls Gulbrandsen]

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Bob Chiodini wrote:
| On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:39 +0100, Truls Gulbrandsen wrote:
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|>Hi again,
|>now I get worried.  I am still not able to log in with the established
|>user ids.  Also, I am unable to create and use new user ids - well i can
|>create but get the same errormessage.  The only one working is root.
|>Is this a weakness with this distribution or with Linux?  Am I at risk
|>(of course I am) that this will happen to pcs with FC3?  Now I don't
|>risk doing an upgrade and reboot of this "live" machine.
|>
|>Regards,
|>Truls
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| Truls,
|
| This sounds like something is wrong with the permissions on one of the
| following /tmp/.ICE-unix, /tmp/.X0-lock, /tmp/.X11-unix.  When I've had
| problems logging into X as normal users, I've deleted these files and
| directories from /tmp.  ctrl-alt-F1, login as root, init 3, then delete
| the above mentioned files and directories, init 5 and try logging in as
| a normal (non-root) user to GDM.
|
| A couple of other thoughts:  The /tmp/.font-unix directory may also
| contribute.  Stop xfs before deleting that one.  Lastly, I hope, the
| gconfd-<user-name> directories can also safely be deleted in init level
| 3.
|
| Since it happens to all of your non-root users it's not likely a home
| directory problem, unless the permissions or ownership of the home
| directories or /home itself are messed up.  /home should be
|
|         drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 4096 Dec 28 07:30 /home
|
| and as Alexander pointed out /tmp should be:
|
|         drwxrwxrwt  15 root root 4096 Feb 23 19:21 /tmp
|
| I would not have thought an upgrade would have corrupted any of these.
| More likely a system or X crash.
|
| Bob...
|
Hi,
first; I am able to log in with my userid in terminal. Then, loging in
as root running init 3 stop at: Starting anacron: [OK]

I'm starting to doubt that this can be solved and that I might as well
reinstall FC3???

Does anyone have an idea how voulnerable FC3 is to this kind of problem?

Regards,
Truls
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