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.
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.
When logged in as root and su pamela I get
No shell
I'm thinking (hoping) there is an easy solution, the 'No shell' gives me
a clue but I don't know enough to fix this. The laptop is running woody
with dist-upgrade on Mar 27. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Sounds like you've had some severe file system corruption.
Or that some partitions (/home, /var) may not be mounted. Does "mount"
show all your defined partitions as being mounted?
What happens if you do an "ls -l /home"?
Kent
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