Hi,
Yesterday I upgraded to Fedora Rawhide. After this logging in to GNOME with mortal users was not possible anymore; after username/password gnome-session got started, the Fedora logo showed and then nothing... No crash, but also no action (normally some icons and text being displayed of what programs are started). Logging in with root was no problem however.
After some trial-and-error I noticed that when I installed the old control-center-2.4.0 (from FC1) back again the problem vanished.
I have absolutely no hard evidence, but I suspect gnome-settings-daemon to be the culprit. Only a few programs get loaded before all action stops, and replacing the RPMs of the other programs (such as GConf2) did not solve the problem.
Is this a known problem? I suspect some rights issues are to blame (as root was still able to log in)...
-- Alexander Brinkman
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 19:29 +0100, Alexander Brinkman wrote:
with mortal users was not possible anymore; after username/password gnome-session got started, the Fedora logo showed and then nothing... No crash, but also no action (normally some icons and text being displayed of what programs are started). Logging in with root was no problem however.
Seems I was a little bit too fast sending the first post. It seems that it only happens with users who do not have a working GNOME setup before the upgrade to control-center-2.5.1 (i.e. when you create a new user with useradd). Also logging in the first time with such a user results in an immediate crash (X server gets reset). Second, third and later attempts to log in results in described logo showing and no further action.
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 10:59, Alexander Brinkman wrote:
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 19:29 +0100, Alexander Brinkman wrote:
with mortal users was not possible anymore;
Seems I was a little bit too fast sending the first post. It seems that it only happens with users who do not have a working GNOME setup
I'd be willing to bet money (well, a bit) that the problem is that the new users' .gnome, .gnome2, etc. files are being created as owned by root rather than as that user. I've seen this before on and off.
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Stephen Walton