Can't log into FC4 user account [Fatal X11 Error]

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:53 -0400, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I seem to be having an issue with both of my FC4 boxes that I can't seem to explain. It seems that 
> when I reboot my machine or even log out for that matter, when I try to log back in I get this X11 
> error and then it won't let me log back in.
> 
> When I attempt to log in a little box shows up that says the following:
> 
> Your session only lasted less then 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself this could mean 
> there is some installation problem or that you maybe out of disk space. Try logging in with one of 
> the failsafe sessions and see if you can fix this problem. view details (~/.xsession-errors file)
> 
> The ~/xsession-errors file says:
> /etc/x11/gdm/presession/defafult: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
> 
> /etc/x11/gdm/presession/defafult: Running: /usr/x11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u 
> /var/run/wtmp -x "var/gdm/:0.xservers" -h " " -l :0 "username"
> 
> Gconf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to 
> enable TCP/IP networking for ORBIT or you have a stale NFS Locks due to a system crash. See 
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf for information. (Details - 1: IOR file 
> '/tmp/gconfd-username/lock/ior not opened successfully' no gconfd located: Permission Denied. 2: IOR 
> file '/tmp/gconfd-username/lock/ior not opened successfully' no gconfd located: Permission Denied.
> 

What do you have in your /etc/hosts?  I have seen X11 errors as a result
of someone removing the mandatory line below.

  # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
  # that require network functionality will fail.
  127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

The error is telling you that the login cannot connect to the gconfd
server, and may be network related.


> Gconf-sanity-check-2 did not pass, logging back out.
> 
> On my work machine, I have created several usernames (3) and I am not able to log in or any of them 
> and they all give me that same error. I can only log in as root.
> 
> On my box at home, I created another account and it seems to be working fine for now but I have yet 
> to reboot that machine.
> 
> The only realy difference between the two is that my box at work has 3 netapp servers mounted on it 
> and even after unmounting them and rebooting, it still doesnt allow me to log in. On my home 
> machine, I don't have any systems mounted and I still have this problem.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated, I would love to get away from windows and start using my linux 
> machine again.
>