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

[Lovell Mcilwain]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> 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.
> 
I have not edited my /etc/hosts file on my work machine, I just connect to the wireless network and 
I get all of my network settings via dhcp.

On my home machine because I don't have dns I have the following:
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1       Whistler        localhost.localdomain   localhost
192.168.x.x  router
192.168.x.x  mordor
192.168.x.x  emlateras
> 
> 
>>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.
>>
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