[K12OSN] LTSP on Fedora13 - users can't login

[Brian Fristensky]

I have just done a clean install of Fedora 13 on my
x86_64 system, and installed LTSP that comes with F13,
along with all updates.

I can get the image to download by PXE, and I get
the blue k12Linux login screen. However, after typing
a userid and password, I see the message

Verifying password, please wait.

The screen goes black for a moment and flashes a
message (too fast to be readable), and then
returns to the blue login screen again.

I have listed some relevant information below, but
I am stumped. Anyone have any insights?


BACKGROUND

There is a bug in ltsp-build-client that pointed to the
wrong repos. I have applied the fix found at

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598134

I built the client with no further problems and followed
the installation instructions at

https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/InstallGuide

I was previously-using LTSP on Fedora11, and this worked
fine.

RELEVANT INFO

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- On the server, the user's $HOME/.Xauthority file gets a new modification
time each time a login is attempted.

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- $HOME/.xsession-errors does not get changed.

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- /var/log/ldm.log does not exist on the server.
   In my lts.conf file, SYSLOG_HOST is set to the ip address of the server

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- on the server, /var/log/secure has the following messages from a failed login 
attempt for user 'birch'
Sep  6 17:16:21 orpheus sshd[7721]: Accepted password for birch from 
192.168.1.110 port 33405 ssh2
Sep  6 17:16:21 orpheus sshd[7721]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for 
user birch by (uid=0)
Sep  6 17:16:21 orpheus sshd[7724]: Received disconnect from 192.168.1.110: 11: 
disconnected by user
Sep  6 17:16:21 orpheus sshd[7721]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for 
user birch

So I THINK the problem is not password authentication, but something that 
happens after.

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on the server, /var/log/messages has the following entries for the same
login:

Sep  6 17:16:23 orpheus xinetd[2621]: START: ldminfod pid=7741 
from=::ffff:192.168.1.110
Sep  6 17:16:23 orpheus xinetd[2621]: EXIT: ldminfod status=0 pid=7741 
duration=0(sec)
Sep  6 17:16:23 orpheus xinetd[2621]: START: ldminfod pid=7744 
from=::ffff:192.168.1.110
Sep  6 17:16:23 orpheus xinetd[2621]: EXIT: ldminfod status=0 pid=7744 
duration=0(sec)
Sep  6 17:16:24 orpheus xinetd[2621]: START: nbdrootd pid=7747 
from=::ffff:192.168.1.110
Sep  6 17:16:24 orpheus nbd-server: connect from 192.168.1.110, assigned file is 
/opt/ltsp/images/i386.img
Sep  6 17:16:24 orpheus nbd-server: Size of exported file/device is 315498496
Sep  6 17:16:24 orpheus nbd-server: Disconnect request received.
Sep  6 17:16:24 orpheus xinetd[2621]: EXIT: nbdrootd status=0 pid=7747 
duration=0(sec)
Sep  6 17:20:12 orpheus gdm-simple-greeter[7278]: WARNING: Failed to send buffer
Sep  6 17:20:12 orpheus NetworkManager[2341]: <error> [1283811612.460757] 
[nm-manager.c:1328] user_proxy_init(): could not init user settings proxy: (3) 
Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings': no 
such name
Sep  6 17:20:12 orpheus NetworkManager[2341]: <error> [1283811612.557950] 
[nm-manager.c:1328] user_proxy_init(): could not init user settings proxy: (3) 
Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings': no 
such name
Sep  6 17:20:14 orpheus rtkit-daemon[2898]: Sucessfully made thread 7883 of 
process 7883 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '505' high priority at nice level -11.
Sep  6 17:20:14 orpheus rtkit-daemon[2898]: Sucessfully made thread 7923 of 
process 7883 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '505' RT at priority 5.
Sep  6 17:20:14 orpheus rtkit-daemon[2898]: Sucessfully made thread 7929 of 
process 7883 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '505' RT at priority 5.
Sep  6 17:20:15 orpheus rtkit-daemon[2898]: Sucessfully made thread 7987 of 
process 7987 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '505' high priority at nice level -11.
Sep  6 17:20:15 orpheus pulseaudio[7987]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Sep  6 17:20:16 orpheus setroubleshoot: SELinux not enabled, setroubleshootd 
exiting...


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