GNOME Login Problem

[Oliver Aaltonen]

Brian,

I should mention this happens with all of the users. I've even created
some "fresh" accounts, using RHEL3's defaults, and the same problems
occur.

Here are the permissions under one of the test accounts:
drwx------    5 guest    guest        4096 Aug 26 16:20 .
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Aug 25 14:13 ..
-rw-------    1 guest    guest          60 Aug 26 14:32 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--    1 guest    guest          24 Sep 18  2003 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--    1 guest    guest         191 Sep 18  2003 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--    1 guest    guest         124 Sep 18  2003 .bashrc
drwx------    3 guest    guest        4096 Aug 25 18:00 .gconfd
drwxr-xr-x    2 guest    guest        4096 Aug 25 18:00 .gnome2
-rw-r--r--    1 guest    guest         120 Aug 20  2003 .gtkrc
-rw-rw-r--    1 guest    guest          11 Aug 26 14:31 guest_test.txt
drwxr-xr-x    3 guest    guest        4096 Aug 24 14:01 .kde
-rw-------    1 guest    guest         607 Aug 26 14:31 .viminfo
-rw-------    1 guest    guest           0 Aug 26 16:20 .Xauthority
-rw-------    1 guest    guest           0 Aug 26 16:20 .xsession-errors

Oliver

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:50:41 -0700, Brian D. McGrew
<brian at doubledimension.com> wrote:
> 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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