GNOME Login Problem

[Oliver Aaltonen]

Yes, I should have mentioned that as well. KDE sits at the same blank
screen with cursor after successfully authenticating the user via GDM.
As I mentioned previously, the "failsafe" session works fine.

Oliver

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:24:40 -0700, Brian D. McGrew
<brian at doubledimension.com> wrote:
> Those two lines look good.  The only reason for the automounter would
> be a matter of simplicity not functionality.
> 
> Have you tried logging in with KDE or any other window manager besides
> gnome?
> 
> -brian
> 
> Brian D. McGrew         { brian at doubledimension.com ||
> pacemakertaker at yahoo.com }
> --
>  > YOU!  Off my planet!
> 
> 
> On Aug 26, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Oliver Aaltonen wrote:
> 
> > Relevant line from server's /etc/exports:
> > /home   128.119.158.0/24(rw,sync)
> >
> > Relevant line from client's /etc/fstab:
> > 128.119.163.32:/home    /home                   nfs     rw,hard,intr
> >  0 0
> >
> > I did not consider using the automounter, since I assumed a simple
> > mount via fstab would do the trick. I will look into this.
> >
> > Oliver
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:08:59 -0700, Brian D. McGrew
> > <brian at doubledimension.com> wrote:
> >> Ok ... so if it occurs with a brand new user with nothing special in
> >> the login, (unlike my login environment which is going 14 years old
> >> now) then lets have a look at your /etc/fstab on the client and the
> >> /etc/exports file from the server.
> >>
> >> Also, if I may ask, why aren't you using the automounter (amd) instead
> >> of hard mounting the in the fstab?
> >>
> >> -brian
> >>
> >> Brian D. McGrew         { brian at doubledimension.com ||
> >> pacemakertaker at yahoo.com }
> >> --
> >>> YOU!  Off my planet!
> >>
> >>
> >> On Aug 26, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Oliver Aaltonen wrote:
> >>
> >>> Brian,
> >>>
> >>> I should mention this happens with all of the users. I've even
> >>> created
> >>> some "fresh" accounts, using RHEL3's defaults, and the same problems
> >>> occur.
> >>>
> >>> Here are the permissions under one of the test accounts:
> >>> drwx------    5 guest    guest        4096 Aug 26 16:20 .
> >>> drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Aug 25 14:13 ..
> >>> -rw-------    1 guest    guest          60 Aug 26 14:32 .bash_history
> >>> -rw-r--r--    1 guest    guest          24 Sep 18  2003 .bash_logout
> >>> -rw-r--r--    1 guest    guest         191 Sep 18  2003 .bash_profile
> >>> -rw-r--r--    1 guest    guest         124 Sep 18  2003 .bashrc
> >>> drwx------    3 guest    guest        4096 Aug 25 18:00 .gconfd
> >>> drwxr-xr-x    2 guest    guest        4096 Aug 25 18:00 .gnome2
> >>> -rw-r--r--    1 guest    guest         120 Aug 20  2003 .gtkrc
> >>> -rw-rw-r--    1 guest    guest          11 Aug 26 14:31
> >>> guest_test.txt
> >>> drwxr-xr-x    3 guest    guest        4096 Aug 24 14:01 .kde
> >>> -rw-------    1 guest    guest         607 Aug 26 14:31 .viminfo
> >>> -rw-------    1 guest    guest           0 Aug 26 16:20 .Xauthority
> >>> -rw-------    1 guest    guest           0 Aug 26 16:20
> >>> .xsession-errors
> >>>
> >>> Oliver
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:50:41 -0700, Brian D. McGrew
> >>> <brian at doubledimension.com> wrote:
> >>>> I would have a look in the users home directory and make sure that
> >>>> you
> >>>> have correct permissions on all the dot files (.gnome, .gtkrc, etc)
> >>>> and
> >>>> that the correct ownership is set.  I saw this problem once on
> >>>> Solaris
> >>>> with Sun's gnome recently.
> >>>>
> >>>> -brian
> >>>>
> >>>> Brian D. McGrew         { brian at doubledimension.com ||
> >>>> pacemakertaker at yahoo.com }
> >>>> --
> >>>>> YOU!  Off my planet!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Aug 26, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Oliver Aaltonen wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I am experiencing a problem logging onto the GNOME desktop with the
> >>>>> following setup:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Server (RHEL3 AS) is exporting /home via NFS and running an LDAP
> >>>>> server for authentication. Client (RHEL3 WS) is mounting /home via
> >>>>> an
> >>>>> entry in /etc/fstab.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The mount works fine, and client is set up for LDAP authentication
> >>>>> correctly. I can log in through the console or SSH into the client
> >>>>> machine and access the user's home directory and work perfectly
> >>>>> normally.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The only problem I have is when I try to log onto the client
> >>>>> machine
> >>>>> using GDM to run X locally. If I log in as one of the users on the
> >>>>> server, with their home directory in the mounted share, the user is
> >>>>> authenticated and the screen turns blank with a cursor and sits
> >>>>> there,
> >>>>> not bringing up a GNOME desktop. I can log in through GDM into a
> >>>>> "failsafe" session, but not GNOME. If I log in as root on the
> >>>>> client
> >>>>> machine, everything works fine, and the GNOME desktop comes up
> >>>>> correctly.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> There are no obvious errors in the logs that I can find.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any thoughts? Thanks in advance,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Oliver
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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> >>
> >>
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