Thanks for replying to me direct, the list has about a 4 hour lag time today. > On 2002-03-28 12:03:48, Dale Hair wrote: > > My wife's laptop crashed last night and after restarting gdm will not > > start. I get a message > > > > Server Authorization directory (daemon/ServAuthDir) is set to > > /var/lib/gdm but this does not exist. Please correct gdm configuration > > /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and restart gdm. > > > > and a blinking cursor. When I press ENTER more services start up and I > > get > > > > Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdmgdm_config_parse Authdir /var/lib/gdm > > does not exist. Aborting. > > already running. > > > > and then the login prompt. > > > > The directory /var/lib/gdm does exist. > > Does it look like this? > > drwxr-x--- 2 gdm gdm 4096 Mar 27 22:15 gdm/ ls-ld /var/lib/gdm shows this.
drwxr-xr-x 2 gdm gdm 4096 Mar 27 20:54 /var/lib/gdm > See if the following files are missing (you should probably only have > the shadow files if you actually enabled that feature) or corrupted, > typically disk crashes leave binary data in them and as these are text > files it should be easy to spot. If so, you will have backup copies > named similarly but with a '-' at the end (passwd-, shadow- etc). /etc/passwd and passwd- are identical and look coherent. /etc/shadow and shadow- are the same except I added user dale to see if I could login with a newly created user, and these files look coherent also. > > I can login as root and startx OK, but when I try to login as pamela I > > get a message > > > > unable to cd to "/home/pamela" > > > > The directory /home/pamela does exist. > > With what permissions and what ownership/permissions, same question for > /home. Did you fsck your disk? /home pamela drwxr-xr-x 27 pamela pamela /home was drwxrwsr-x 5 root staff I looked at my desktop system and saw mine was drwxrwxr-x so I changed it on the laptop and it still doesn't work. On reboot the file system was checked. It is ext2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
