GNOME Login Problem

[Brian D. McGrew]

Ok ... so if it occurs with a brand new user with nothing special in 
the login, (unlike my login environment which is going 14 years old 
now) then lets have a look at your /etc/fstab on the client and the 
/etc/exports file from the server.

Also, if I may ask, why aren't you using the automounter (amd) instead 
of hard mounting the in the fstab?

-brian

Brian D. McGrew		{ brian at doubledimension.com || 
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On Aug 26, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Oliver Aaltonen wrote:

> 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
>>
>> Brian D. McGrew         { brian at doubledimension.com ||
>> pacemakertaker at yahoo.com }
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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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