Re: weird yp problem - taskbar and icons do not appear

[Christoph Kukulies <kuku gilberto physik RWTH-Aachen DE>]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:54:33AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 
> Under Redhat 6.1 I have YP/NIS and amd installed and users can login 
> everywhere having their home directories on different machines etc. etc.
> 
> I have users in the range of 500 tp 600 (UID). When I change the id of
                                   ^^to
> a user to e.g. 1600, do a make in /var/yp and chown -R 1600.1601 for example
> for this newly changed user's home directory recursively then 
> this user can login via gdm on his home machine (where his homedirectory
> resides physically) but he doesn't get a taskbar nor any icons on the desktop.
> So to say, he gets a blank desktop.
> 
> When the same user then goes to a different machine where his homedirectory
> is not physically and thus has to be mounted, he gets everything fine.
> 
> I havn't yet figured out if it has to do something the user id range
> but I suspect it has to.
> 
> If the user has created a terminal window (xterm) before and has had saved
> the session on exit, then he gets this xterm on the desktop but that's all.
> Still no taskbar or icons.


I should add that after further investigation I found that there 
can be found a core file in the respective users' homedirectory.
This core file stems from gmc (!). (FYI)

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> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku gil physik rwth-aachen de
> 
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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku gil physik rwth-aachen de