Re: [K12OSN] users kicked out on 4.2.1

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:

> Dear Folks,
> 	after upgrading my 3.2.0 production server to 4.2.1 (pre), I
> started experiencing sudden user logouts and station inability to get a
> login screen. This looks as if the MaxSessions in gdm.conf was
> too low, but the bad behavior continues after changing this number from
> 250 to 2500 and rebooting. What am I missing here? The users are beginning
> to riot.
> thanks, julius

Since you did an upgrade, there is a chance that something is wrong
with the SELinux config. Try turning off SELinux enforcing mode
by running this command:

	echo 0 > /selinux/enforce


If that makes your problem go away, you can either permanently turn
off enforcing or relabel the file system.

To change the SELinux behavor, edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux and reboot.

To relabel the filesystem, this should do the trick:

	restorecon -R /


If turning off SELinux doesn't fix it, can you provide us with a
little more info? Otherwise we're mostly just guessing.

* contents of /var/log/gdm/*.log
* your config (one NIC or two NICs, etc)
* unusual output from "dmesg"
* anything interesting in /var/log/messages, /var/log/secure, etc.

-Eric