On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:53 -0400, Lovell Mcilwain wrote: > Hello all, > > I seem to be having an issue with both of my FC4 boxes that I can't seem to explain. It seems that > when I reboot my machine or even log out for that matter, when I try to log back in I get this X11 > error and then it won't let me log back in. > > When I attempt to log in a little box shows up that says the following: > > Your session only lasted less then 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself this could mean > there is some installation problem or that you maybe out of disk space. Try logging in with one of > the failsafe sessions and see if you can fix this problem. view details (~/.xsession-errors file) > > The ~/xsession-errors file says: > /etc/x11/gdm/presession/defafult: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp > > /etc/x11/gdm/presession/defafult: Running: /usr/x11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u > /var/run/wtmp -x "var/gdm/:0.xservers" -h " " -l :0 "username" > > Gconf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to > enable TCP/IP networking for ORBIT or you have a stale NFS Locks due to a system crash. See > http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf for information. (Details - 1: IOR file > '/tmp/gconfd-username/lock/ior not opened successfully' no gconfd located: Permission Denied. 2: IOR > file '/tmp/gconfd-username/lock/ior not opened successfully' no gconfd located: Permission Denied. > What do you have in your /etc/hosts? I have seen X11 errors as a result of someone removing the mandatory line below. # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost The error is telling you that the login cannot connect to the gconfd server, and may be network related. > Gconf-sanity-check-2 did not pass, logging back out. > > On my work machine, I have created several usernames (3) and I am not able to log in or any of them > and they all give me that same error. I can only log in as root. > > On my box at home, I created another account and it seems to be working fine for now but I have yet > to reboot that machine. > > The only realy difference between the two is that my box at work has 3 netapp servers mounted on it > and even after unmounting them and rebooting, it still doesnt allow me to log in. On my home > machine, I don't have any systems mounted and I still have this problem. > > Any help is greatly appreciated, I would love to get away from windows and start using my linux > machine again. >
