Re: authorization file

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:48:56PM +0200, Enrico Vecchione wrote:
> I've successfully built and installed latest gdm version (2.4.0). I've
> created "gdm" user and group as showed in README.install file. But, when I
> log in, X crashes and I get this error message:
> 
> "Gdm could not write to your authorization file. This could mean that you
> are out of disk space or that your home directory could not be opened for
> writing"
> 
> Any advice?

This would mean that gdm can't write to the home directory of the user you
are trying to log in as.  This is needed to write the X authorization
cookies.  It should however check the /tmp dir as well I think.  

Perhaps it's failing not at openning but at writing to the file.  Are you
sure you are not out of disk space or quota for that user?  Maybe gdm is
doing something wrong ...

George

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