As Homer Simpson would say, Dooh!. It turned out that somehow I managed to change my .ICEauthority file ownership to root:root.
Once I used a non-graphical login it was easy to spot. I also noticed that Windowmaker gave the same "security violations" in logcheck. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. Tony On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:30:40PM -0500, Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo wrote: > Greetings, > > I have been unable to log into a gnome-session in the past two days. > I've started getting the following "security violations" in logcheck > corresponding to the times I attempt to log in. > > Dec 2 18:38:07 localhost pam_limits[6588]: setrlimit limit #7 to > soft=-1, > +hard=-1 failed: Operation not permitted; uid=0 euid=0 > Dec 2 18:38:30 localhost pam_limits[6644]: setrlimit limit #7 to > soft=-1, > +hard=-1 failed: Operation not permitted; uid=0 euid=0 > Dec 2 18:38:58 localhost pam_limits[6692]: setrlimit limit #7 to > soft=-1, > +hard=-1 failed: Operation not permitted; uid=0 euid=0 > > (note I substituted localhost for the computer name in this mail message) > > My /etc/security/limits.conf file is at the default state, and I was > able to log into gnome2 before yesterday afternoon. Now when I attempt > to log into a gnome-sessionce, the screen goes black and then just > returns to the kdm login screen (the same thing happens with gdm). I > can log into kde or a default xsession (as long as it isn't gnome2) > without any problem. I am using the unstable branch. > > Any suggestions as to where I should look to solve this problem? > > > Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
