GDM login problem

[T. Horsnell]

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>Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> All of a sudden, I started getting the "your session lasted less than
>> 10seconds ......" error with GDM. This happens as soon as the username
>> and passwords are entered. The "show details" lists only the following
>> lines:
>> 
>> /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
>> /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w
>> /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0"
>> "darkknight"
>> 
>> There are no errors listed that I can track down and fix ..
>> 
>> If I login to a Failsafe terminal instead and issue "gnome-session", I
>> get a GNOME session running just fine... So somewhere between GDM and
>> GNOME session, something must be wrong .. I just don't see what ..
>> 
>> I hope someone can help me out ...
>> 
>> 
>> TIA
>> -M
>
>Additional comment: even with a newly created user account, the problem
>persists ...

/tmp full?

Cheers,
Terry