On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 06:32:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I rebooted and gdm starts, opens icewm with aforementioned problems.
> >
> > I can only stop gdm as root.
> >
> > If I run startx as tom it starts gdm and opens icewm with the same
> ^^^
> gdm too? That's strange ...
>
> > problems. If I run startx as root it opens gnome and if I try to
> > switch users to tom its a no-op, the desktop remains open with root
> > as the user.
>
> I can't imagine where your problems come from, but I would try to
> create a new user with 'adduser testuser' (as root), shutdown gdm, login
> as that user and try startx and then some apps. If this works then
> compare ownership/permissions for homedir, dotfiles, ...
>
> BTW, the box you were comparing permissions with, does it also run
> etch? How/when was the user 'tom' created. Do you have other users on
> this box?
Thanks, you put your finger on the problem Andrei.
First, I added a new user (dummy), shutdown gdm, logged in as
dummy and ran startx. The gnome desktop came up and dummy can
launch and use iceape and openoffice.
Second, as to how/when user tom was created, tom came from a
previous existance. I had a box which had been upgraded to Etch
with a 1.4 GHz cpu which could not handle video capture and
editing. In addition, the hard drive was dying. I bought a new
motherboard (ASUS M2N4-SLI), an AMD64 cpu, 1 GB of memory, and a
PCIE video card. I had another old but OK 20 GB hard drive.
Before shutting the old system down I burnt /home/tom to a cd.
Then I switched out the hardware, did a netinst with the stock
2.6.18-4-amd64 kernel. When netinst succeded I copied the
contents of the cd into /home. Voila, tom resurrected.
I don't immediately see why this should not have worked
flawlessly. I'll puzzel it out and, in the meantime, login as
dummy.
Tom
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
> --
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> (Albert Einstein)
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