Re: [gdm-list] Requesting for assistance

[manarshi das <manarshi_das_biotech yahoo co in>]

Respected Sir ,

 

Thank youu very much Sir for your fast reply .I logged in as root and runned 'startx' to launch the GUI program and backed out changes I made . Now I can log in as a root but while I try to login as normal user which I have created , i get the folowing error message :

 

"GDM could not write to your authorization file.
this could mean that  you are  out of disk space or your home directory could not be opened for writing. in any case, it is not possible to log in
contact your system administrator"

these are the outputs as you have asked for

[root localhost ~]# cd /var
[root localhost var]# ls
account  cvs    games  local  mail  preserve  spool  www
cache    db     gdm    lock   nis   racoon    tmp    yp
crash    empty  lib    log    opt   run       tux
[root localhost var]# ls -ld gdm
drwxrwx--T 2 root gdm 4096 Jan  7 12:35 gdm
[root localhost var]#

the output of the command ls -ld /var/gdm is as follows

[root localhost ~]# gdmflexiserver --command=VERSION
GDM 2.16.0
[root localhost ~]# ls -ld /var/gdm
drwxrwx--T 2 root gdm 4096 Jan  7 12:38 /var/gdm
[root localhost ~]#

Please help me to sort out this problem so that i may login as normal user also .

eagerly waiting for your help ,

 

Thanks & regards ,

Manarshi Das

Mob:+91-9000999730

--- On Wed, 7/1/09, Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM> wrote:

From: Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>
Subject: Re: [gdm-list] Requesting for assistance
To: manarshi_das_biotech yahoo co in
Cc: gdm-list gnome org
Date: Wednesday, 7 January, 2009, 12:59 AM

manarshi das:

> In root login, in permission option of all directories, I selected option
none permission for "others" keeping options create & delete files
for owner as it is .
> But after I logged  out, I am not able to log as root or any other user
> 
> there is an error message
> server authorization directory (daemon/servAuthDir) is set to /var/gdm but
this file does not exist. please correct GDM configuration and restart GDM
> 
> Please help what should I do to correct my problem . I will be greatful if
anyone kindly tell me the solution of this problem  .

What version of GDM are you using?  You should be able to run
"gdmflexiserver --command=VERSION" or "gdmflexiserver
--version" to
check this.

In the GDM configuration file, there is a configuration option called
ServAuthDir which is set to "/var/gdm".  Please make sure this
directory
exists and that it is a directory (and not a file).  You may need to
boot your machine into console mode, or use virtual terminals to get to
a text console so you can log into root and set up this directory.

If the directory exists, but it is still not working, then the
permissions of the directory may be incorrect.  Could you show
the output of the "ls -ld /var/gdm" command and we could perhaps
help let you know what might be wrong with the directory permissions.

Brian

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