On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 20:23 +0100, Truls Gulbrandsen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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? > > Regards, > Truls Truls, Logging into a console as a non-root user is typical, meaning something X alone is corrupted. Did you delete the suggested files and directories from /tmp? The Starting... messages after switching to init level 3 are normal, carriage return should get you a prompt. If not Alt-CTRL-F1 again and hit return. As to your vulnerability question. I cannot remember having this problem in FC3. I may have seen it in FC2 and earlier RedHat releases, but it was usually traceable to a system or X crash. I would not say it is a show stopping vulnerability. Bob...
