gdmgreeter refuses to start in fc7

Tue Jul 3 21:46:52 UTC 2007

Just to explain that all the weirdness actually was originated  by untar, as
root, of a tar.bz2 file in /tmp at 23.35 yesterday evening ;-(
This file contained at the very beginning:
tar jtvf archive.tar.bz2
drwxr-xr-x login/users         0 2007-03-19 13:56:20 ./
...

So this had the effect of changing permissions of /tmp dir from
drwxrwxrwt 48 root root 36864 2007-07-03 23:28 /tmp
to
drwxr-xr-x 46 1000 users 36864 2007-07-03 23:10 /tmp

(no mapping between uid 1000 and users on my system).

Sorry to all. I think to notify the author of the tar.....

Gianluca

On 7/3/07, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> After I convinced my wife to use Linux and three days of satisfied use of
> fc7, today it seems  the gdm greeter refuses to start... ;-(
> I'm not at the PC but I connected remotely.
> She says that at the screen she gets "the greeter refused to start,
> retry...". If she presses ok the same happens.
> Already tried to restart but the same...
>
> In messages I have:
> Jul  3 14:40:34 localhost gdmgreeter[3129]: The accessibility registry was
> not found.
> Jul  3 14:40:38 localhost gdm[3025]: failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions:
> 0 0)
> Jul  3 14:40:38 localhost gdm[3025]: failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions:
> 0 1)
> Jul  3 14:40:57 localhost gdmgreeter[3180]: The accessibility registry was
> not found.
> Jul  3 14:41:02 localhost gdm[3025]: failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions:
> 0 0)
> Jul  3 14:41:02 localhost gdm[3025]: failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions:
> 0 1)
>
>
> Strange is that
>  [root at localhost log]# ps -ef|grep -E "X|gdm" | grep -v grep
> gives:
> root      1733     1  0 14:39 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g
> /dev/sda1 /XP -o rw,nls=utf8
> root      3025     1  0 14:40 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary
> -nodaemon
> root      3107     1  0 14:40 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary
> -nodaemon
> root      3185  3025  0 14:40 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary
> -nodaemon
> root      3187  3185  0 14:40 tty7     00:00:01 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br
> -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
> gdm       3205  3185  0 14:41 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary
> -nodaemon
> gdm       3208  3025  0 14:41 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary
> -nodaemon
>
> yesterday I used without problems the system that is an x86_64 updated
> fc7.
> I updated several not apparently related packages:
> In yum.log I have:
> Jul 02 23:31:52 Updated: xvidcore.x86_64 1.1.3-1.lvn7
> Jul 02 23:31:53 Updated: livna-config-display.noarch 0.0.14a-1.lvn7
> Jul 02 23:31:53 Updated: k3b-extras-nonfree.x86_64 1.0.2-1.lvn7
>
> then I manually installed these:
> Jul 03 00:54:33 Installed: xmlrpc-c.x86_64 1.06.11-2.fc7
> Jul 03 00:54:36 Installed: cmake.x86_64 2.4.6-3.fc7
>
> Strange to say, yesterday I was proposed to upgrade gnome-menus to 2.19.4but I deselected it
> It seems strange as this should be a devel package not in mainstream fc7,
> or not?
>
> After the problem today I tried to upgrade it
> Jul 03 14:37:49 Updated: gnome-menus.x86_64 2.19.4-1.fc7
>
> But nothing changes...
> In its changelog I can misteriously see:
> * Sun Jun 17 2007 Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com > - 2.19.4-1
> - Update to 2.19.4
>
> * Tue May 29 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 2.18.2-1
> - Update to 2.18.2
> ???
>
> In /var/log/gdm I have:
>
> [root at localhost gdm]# ls -lrt
> total 32
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 793 2007-04-27 22:59 : 20.log.2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 791 2007-05-16 22:05 :20.log.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 888 2007-06-14 18:47 :20.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 792 2007-07-03 14:19 :0.log.4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 792 2007-07-03 14:40 : 0.log.3
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 879 2007-07-03 14:40 :0.log.2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 792 2007-07-03 14:40 :0.log.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 792 2007-07-03 14:40 :0.log
>
> In :0.log
> X Window System Version 1.3.0
> Release Date: 19 April 2007
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
> Build Operating System: Fedora Core 7 Red Hat, Inc.
> Current Operating System: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 #1
> SMP Tue Jun 12 14:56:37 ED
> T 2007 x86_64
> Build Date: 11 June 2007
> Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.3.0.0-9.fc7
>         Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>         to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Module Loader present
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Jul  3 14:40:59 2007
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> (II) Module already built-in
>
> In :0.log.2 I have this line more:
> AUDIT: Tue Jul  3 14:40:51 2007: 3136 Xorg: client 2 rejected from local
> host (uid 42)
> Anyone experiencing this?
> If I set KDE as desktop manager in /etc/sysconfig/desktop file, I get the
> kdm login screen, but trying to connect I get again the login screen and in
> messages:
>
> Jul  3 15:19:45 localhost kdm_greet[5331]: Internal error: memory
> corruption detected
> Jul  3 15:19:45 localhost kdm: :0[5355]: Can't execute
> "/usr/share/config/kdm/Xstartup": No such file or directory
> Jul  3 15:19:45 localhost kdm: :0[5448]: Can't execute
> "/usr/share/config/kdm/Xreset": No such file or directory
> Jul  3 15:19:59 localhost kdm_greet[5453]: Internal error: memory
> corruption detected
> Jul  3 15:19:59 localhost kdm: :0[5466]: Can't execute
> "/usr/share/config/kdm/Xstartup": No such file or directory
> Jul  3 15:19:59 localhost kdm: :0[5559]: Can't execute
> "/usr/share/config/kdm/Xreset": No such file or directory
>
> Strange that under /usr/share/config/kdm/ there are only Xreset.rpmnew and
> Xstartup.rpmnew ....
> I renamed them as Xreset and Xstartup but nothing changes
> If I set XDM in /etc/sysconfig/desktop I get the xdm login and I'm able to
> log in with a primitive X session.... ;-)
>
> Also, doing a startx from init3 I get correctly a root X Windows
> session....
> rpm -vV gdm
> gives no errors....
> Can anyone point to a solution?
> Thanks in advance,
> Gianluca
>
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