GNOME Login Problem
Oliver Aaltonen
aaltonen at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 18:07:07 UTC 2004
Network connectivity is normal and working fine. As I mentioned, I can
log in through a console, SSH, failsafe, etc. and operate fine. I am
using LDAP for authentication.
All routing and DNS settings are fine, and the network works as
normal. The root user can operate any network-utilizing utilities fine
from within GNOME, and console-based and X utilities work for everyone
else, just not from within GNOME.
I created another test account, this time pointing to a different home
directory, this time using the local directory /tmp/guest2 instead of
the default, NFS-mounted /home/guest2. I was able to log into GNOME
successfully.
Any ideas?
Oliver
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:53:31 -0700, Brian D. McGrew
<brian at doubledimension.com> wrote:
> OK ... So then it's pretty safe to assume that it's not something in
> the environment then. How about network connectivity? Are you able to
> reach the rest of your network without any problems? What are you
> using for authentication? NIS or LDAP?
>
> What about your defualtrouter and DNS setup, is that all correct? I
> assume that you can open a browser and get to the web ok (logged in as
> root, of course)?
>
> Also one lat thing to try ... Create a user that's in your
> authentication system but put the home directory local on the
> workstation and see if that works? I'm wondering if there is some
> issue with write permissions in the authentication process.
>
> -brian
>
> Brian D. McGrew { brian at doubledimension.com ||
> pacemakertaker at yahoo.com }
> --
> > YOU! Off my planet!
>
>
> On Aug 26, 2004, at 10:46 AM, Oliver Aaltonen wrote:
>
> > Using RHEL3's defaults.
> >
> > [guest at ibmlnx21 guest]$ cat .bashrc
> > # .bashrc
> >
> > # User specific aliases and functions
> >
> > # Source global definitions
> > if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
> > . /etc/bashrc
> > fi
> > [guest at ibmlnx21 guest]$ cat .bash_profile
> > # .bash_profile
> >
> > # Get the aliases and functions
> > if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
> > . ~/.bashrc
> > fi
> >
> > # User specific environment and startup programs
> >
> > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
> >
> > export PATH
> > unset USERNAME
> > [guest at ibmlnx21 guest]$ echo $PATH
> > /usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/
> > guest/bin
> >
> > Oliver
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:34:57 -0700, Brian D. McGrew
> > <brian at doubledimension.com> wrote:
> >> Show us your .bash_profile and .bashrc files. Are all the users using
> >> default system files or are any of these customized? Also, is
> >> /usr/X11R6/bin in your path and /usr/X11R6/lib in your
> >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH?
> >>
> >> -brian
> >>
> >> Brian D. McGrew { brian at doubledimension.com ||
> >> pacemakertaker at yahoo.com }
> >> --
> >>> YOU! Off my planet!
> >>
> >>
> >> On Aug 26, 2004, at 10:32 AM, Oliver Aaltonen wrote:
> >>
> >>> Yes, I should have mentioned that as well. KDE sits at the same blank
> >>> screen with cursor after successfully authenticating the user via
> >>> GDM.
> >>> As I mentioned previously, the "failsafe" session works fine.
> >>>
> >>> Oliver
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:24:40 -0700, Brian D. McGrew
> >>> <brian at doubledimension.com> wrote:
> >>>> Those two lines look good. The only reason for the automounter
> >>>> would
> >>>> be a matter of simplicity not functionality.
> >>>>
> >>>> Have you tried logging in with KDE or any other window manager
> >>>> besides
> >>>> gnome?
> >>>>
> >>>> -brian
> >>>>
> >>>> Brian D. McGrew { brian at doubledimension.com ||
> >>>> pacemakertaker at yahoo.com }
> >>>> --
> >>>>> YOU! Off my planet!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Aug 26, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Oliver Aaltonen wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Relevant line from server's /etc/exports:
> >>>>> /home 128.119.158.0/24(rw,sync)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Relevant line from client's /etc/fstab:
> >>>>> 128.119.163.32:/home /home nfs
> >>>>> rw,hard,intr
> >>>>> 0 0
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I did not consider using the automounter, since I assumed a simple
> >>>>> mount via fstab would do the trick. I will look into this.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Oliver
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:08:59 -0700, Brian D. McGrew
> >>>>> <brian at doubledimension.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> 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 ||
> >>>>>> pacemakertaker at yahoo.com }
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>>> YOU! Off my planet!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 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 }
> >>>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>>>> YOU! Off my planet!
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> 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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> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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> >>>>
> >>>>
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