Re: HelixGnome_NonRootLoginFails

[Tom <tommyr agora rdrop com>]

I deleted all the /tmp/.ICE* /tmp/Orbit stuff and the
/home/user/.gnome and it worked fine.

Thanks for the suggestion.



On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:

> >X and gnome were working OK for both root and users prior to
> [...]
> >Any ideas with permission problems or gnome configuration problems?
> 
> A few days ago I fucked up my system a bit and I was unable to launch X too
> (that is what happens when you write "!startx" in a text console that is not
> local, but a telnet to your other machine).
> 
> So I removed the .Xauthorithy and all the X things that are under /tmp/
> (.ICEsomething and .X11something). After that, the system come back to
> normality.
> 
> Try that, maybe that will solve it. If not, I doubt it will screw it more,
> cos all that things are suposedly temporal and can be deleted if not used.
> 
> Aaah, other times the problem is with ORBit dirs in /tmp/. It seems that
> changing UIDs make some apps not happy at all.
> 
> GSR
>  
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