GNOME Login Problem

[Brian D. McGrew]

I would have a look in the users home directory and make sure that you 
have correct permissions on all the dot files (.gnome, .gtkrc, etc) and 
that the correct ownership is set.  I saw this problem once on Solaris 
with Sun's gnome recently.

-brian

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On Aug 26, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Oliver Aaltonen wrote:

> I am experiencing a problem logging onto the GNOME desktop with the
> following setup:
>
> Server (RHEL3 AS) is exporting /home via NFS and running an LDAP
> server for authentication. Client (RHEL3 WS) is mounting /home via an
> entry in /etc/fstab.
>
> The mount works fine, and client is set up for LDAP authentication
> correctly. I can log in through the console or SSH into the client
> machine and access the user's home directory and work perfectly
> normally.
>
> The only problem I have is when I try to log onto the client machine
> using GDM to run X locally. If I log in as one of the users on the
> server, with their home directory in the mounted share, the user is
> authenticated and the screen turns blank with a cursor and sits there,
> not bringing up a GNOME desktop. I can log in through GDM into a
> "failsafe" session, but not GNOME. If I log in as root on the client
> machine, everything works fine, and the GNOME desktop comes up
> correctly.
>
> There are no obvious errors in the logs that I can find.
>
> Any thoughts? Thanks in advance,
>
> Oliver
>
>
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