Sorry I'm not sending this as a reply to one of my messages in the thread, but
I lost those messages by now.
The problem was that i tried to log in via gdm and after trying to authenticate
the same log in screen would come back to me over and over again. I was able
to authenticate as other users though, and found out this way that my logs
displayed the following error messages:
Mar 18 06:44:33 localhost gdm[1028]: gdm_auth_user_remove: /home/nitebirdz is not
owned by uid 0.
Mar 18 06:44:33 localhost gdm[1028]: gdm_auth_user_remove: Ignoring suspiciously
looking cookie file /home/nitebirdz/.Xauthority
The problem appeared to start after I upgraded the HelixCode (Ximian) desktop
via their upgrade utility, but then that could simply be an anecdote. I could
configure the system to use KDM instead, and it would work fine. However, if
I still tried to use Gnome after logging in through KDM the problem was still
there.
Well, after a few more hours troubleshooting the problem I finallt came
accross the solution and that's the whole reason why I'm sending this message.
I performed several searches on the Net and couldn't find a solution,
although I did find quite a few people experiencing the problem.
I first downloaded the source RPM for gdm-2.0beta4-0_helix_7, compiled it
and installed it. However, I still experienced the very same problem after
that. This time though, the gdm_auth_user_remove messages did not seem to
appear in the /var/log/messages. I then found a ~/.xsession-errors that
appeared to point to a corrupted ~/.Xclients file. The contents of this
file looked OK to me, but they appeared to cause some malfunction (no explicit
error messages here that helped). These are the contents of that file:
#!/bin/bash
# Created by Red Hat Desktop Switcher
if [ -e "$HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY" ]; then
exec $HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY
else
exec $HOME/.Xclients-default
fi
It turned out that I had neither a ~/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY nor a
~/.Xclients-default. In any case, simply renaming this file to another
name (~/.Xclients.old) completely fixed the problem and I'm enjoying my
HelixCode/Ximian desktop again.
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