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Bob Chiodini wrote: | On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:39 +0100, Truls Gulbrandsen wrote: | |>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |>Hash: SHA1 |> |>SNIP |>| |>Hi again, |>now I get worried. I am still not able to log in with the established |>user ids. Also, I am unable to create and use new user ids - well i can |>create but get the same errormessage. The only one working is root. |>Is this a weakness with this distribution or with Linux? Am I at risk |>(of course I am) that this will happen to pcs with FC3? Now I don't |>risk doing an upgrade and reboot of this "live" machine. |> |>Regards, |>Truls | | | Truls, | | This sounds like something is wrong with the permissions on one of the | following /tmp/.ICE-unix, /tmp/.X0-lock, /tmp/.X11-unix. When I've had | problems logging into X as normal users, I've deleted these files and | directories from /tmp. ctrl-alt-F1, login as root, init 3, then delete | the above mentioned files and directories, init 5 and try logging in as | a normal (non-root) user to GDM. | | A couple of other thoughts: The /tmp/.font-unix directory may also | contribute. Stop xfs before deleting that one. Lastly, I hope, the | gconfd-<user-name> directories can also safely be deleted in init level | 3. | | Since it happens to all of your non-root users it's not likely a home | directory problem, unless the permissions or ownership of the home | directories or /home itself are messed up. /home should be | | drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 28 07:30 /home | | and as Alexander pointed out /tmp should be: | | drwxrwxrwt 15 root root 4096 Feb 23 19:21 /tmp | | I would not have thought an upgrade would have corrupted any of these. | More likely a system or X crash. | | Bob... | Hi, first; I am able to log in with my userid in terminal. Then, loging in as root running init 3 stop at: Starting anacron: [OK]
I'm starting to doubt that this can be solved and that I might as well reinstall FC3???
Does anyone have an idea how voulnerable FC3 is to this kind of problem?
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