-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 don fisher wrote: > I have installed FC4 on my Dell P4 laptop. All went smoothly until I > tried to load a kernel I compiled myself. I have a 2.6.11 kernel that > functioned correctly under FC3 after I applied the udev patch to allow > my console to exist. > > I also have a 2.6.12.2 kernel. Both have initrd files. When I attempt to > log in from the console I am allowed to enter my user name and password. > As soon as I enter return for the password I am returned to the login > prompt. This also occurs when root attempts to log in. If I boot the > kernel that came with the FC4 distribution the login is successful. > > The entries from 2.6.12.2 that contain my name from /var/log/messages are: > > 1. su(pam_unix)[6674]: session opened for user dfisher by dfisher(uid=0) Dear Don your login is working correct, if it works correct, and you su to a user, he writes that out. > 2. kernel: [ 1094.829499] mtrr: type mismatch for c0000000,8000000 old: > uncachable new: write-combining the mtrr function of the kernel isnt working right, looks like a read error to that address he is showing, should be no biggy, as long as youve got no smp machine. > 3. su(pam_unix)[8072]: session opened for user root by dfisher(uid=239) > once again... see above... > Under RedHats FC4 kernel: > 1. gconfd (dfisher-6896): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 6896 user 'dfisher' > 2. gconfd (dfisher-6896): Resolved address > "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only > configuration source at position 0 > 3. gconfd (dfisher-6896): Resolved address > "xml:readwrite:/home/dfisher/.gconf" to a writable configuration source > at position 1 > 4. gconfd (dfisher-6896): Resolved address > "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only > configuration source at position 2 > gconf is, as the name says, the gnome configuration setup, that simply means that your user has no rights to write to the gnome configuration, which lays in /etc/gconf(.d) directory. which is no biggy either, as you prolly have customized gnome config entries in your home dir. > I do not understand why gconfd is operating under the FC4 kernel and not > my own. But I obviously do not know the details. > > Any help would be appreciated. Life was so simple in the insecure days > before pam, ssh,... made system management a security task. > > don > so far i see no errors there, thats the usual messages that ppls get when running fc3... Greetings Oliver Leitner Technical Staff http://www.shells.at -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCx1UIxHPquN24yVsRAi4EAJ0V/d5oxHF6DSc0Tl2Gw9v5vhVIZwCgqDuU EunpPneE7zYomIE3qtNKtCs= =hkmL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
