Re: [Fwd: Re: gdm2 logs me into a non-graphics session]

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley worldnet att net>]

Elliot Lee wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Dan Hensley wrote:
>
> > I can't help but wonder if the reason I can't log in as a normal user has
> > something to do with permissions?  It acts as though it's trying (login prompt
> > goes away, screen goes black, brief pause, then back out), but it can't get in.
> > Is there a log file I can look at to see what's happening?
>
> It uses syslog for most stuff - make sure to turn on debug messages in the
> gdm.conf file, and also fix syslog.conf to log debug-level messages.

Ok, I finally figured it out.  After digging deeper, I discovered that the Gnome
script in the Sessions directory first looked for $HOME/.gnomerc, and if it wasn't
found it just executed /usr/local/etc/gnomerc.  The problem was that on my system
neither file exists.  When I did a symlink from $HOME/.Xclients to $HOME/.gnomerc, I
was able to log in.  Of course I still have the problem logging in as root, but I
can wait to dig into that one later...

This brings up the question, shouldn't Gnome provide a default ${prefix}/etc/gnomerc
file--maybe in gnome-core?  Seems like this would be a good idea, if gdm is
expecting to find one.  I assume that RH 6 comes with something of the sort.

Dan