Don Flinn: >> Nov 17 09:54:00 flinn gdm[2561]: gdm_slave_session_start: /home/donfl is not owned by uid 502. >> Nov 17 09:54:00 flinn gdm[2561]: gdm_auth_user_add: /home/donfl is not owned by uid 502. >> >> Looking at /etc/passwd: >> donfl:x:502:503:Don Flinn:/home/donfl:/bin/bash >> >> Should that be 502:502 ? Normally I'd expect your own group to have the same numerical value, thanks to Red Hat's scheme of giving each user a private group, but it is possible for them to be different. What matters is that they're the correct ones. > Problem Solved: The home directory for the lost user was owned by root. > I evidently made that mistake when trying to remove OpenOffice, although > I don't remember doing it. Changing ownership back to the lost user > solved the problem. What were you doing that caused you to change ownership? i.e. What steps did you take while trying to un-install? For what it's worth, you only need to be root to install or remove RPMs, you don't need to change ownership of the RPM files to do so. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
