On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:33:44PM +0200, Sjors Robroek wrote:
> >I have just installed a fresh 1.4 RC3, just emerged X and gnome and
> >trying
> >to login via gdm.
> >
> >I have added a local user "jh" using the "adduser" command, created the
> >homedir of the user and tested login on the console, it works fine.
> >
> >If I now want to log in to X via gdm, I just get the error message
> >"your
> >X session has lasted less than 10 seconds [...] View details". In the
> >details
> >files are only the following 2 lines:
> >
> >/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession//Default: Registering your session with wtmp
> >and utmp
> >/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession//Default: running: sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp
> >-u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l :0 jh
> >
> >and nothing more. After I hit "OK", gdm restarts an re-presents me the
> >login screen.
> >
> >Login via gdm using root works fine, gnome starts up normally.
> >Starting X as "jh" via "startx /usr/bin/gnome-session" works equally
> >fine.
> >
> >And stracing gdm doesn't work, then gdm simply hangs after typing in
> >the
> >username.
> >
> >Has anyone a clue where to look for a resolution?
> do you have a separate /tmp partition? if so, chmod 1777 /tmp,
> otherwise normal users can't write files there (something which has
> bugged me for a long time, and is still a problem in the gentoo install)
Yep, that fixed it! Bugger! :)
I think an extra /tmp partition is extremely useful, because I don't want
THAT much writing-activity on my / partition. Writing is always error
prone, especially in a case of spontaneous shutdown (which can happen
at a laptop quite easy -> working without AC-adaptor....) and a process
currently writing to a file in the /tmp breaks my complete / filesystem.
So I can simply reformat my tmp-partition and go on like nothing has happend ;)
I think it would be great to fix it in the baselayout / baseinstall or
even mention it in the install documentation (I hope I have not overread it ;)) ). I
know a couple of people who use this partition layout.
Regards,
Jens
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