Re: Gnome login-rethought

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 16:17 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 09:33 -0600, Abe Woodrum wrote:
> > Hi.
> >  
> > Build: Fedora core 6 x86_64
> >  
> > There are two users on the machine; root and oracle.  Only root is
> > able to successfully login to gnome.  
> >  
> > When trying to login as oracle I get sent back to the gnome login
> > page.  Not really the end of the world as the oracle instance is up
> > and running and most configs/administration at this point is done
> > through ssh.  But I would like to learn how to resolve this issue.
> >  
> > Any help would be great.
> >  
> > -abe
> Usually this means that your gnome configuration files are screwed up.
> I would try 1 of 2 approaches:
> 1. remove all the gnome directories and files with a : rm -r .gnome*
> Those in the oracle directory I mean.
> Then login as oracle and they should be created again by the system and
> you should succeed in logging in.
> 
> 2. rename you oracle directory oracle2 and create a new oracle
> directory. That should straighten things out as well. Copy any thing
> vital from your old oracle directory to the new and then remove the old
> one.
> -- 
> Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>
> 
If oracle is a system user then the other suggestions are more
appropriate. You can't login as a system user.
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