Re: Can't Login

["Sean Middleditch" <elanthis users sourceforge net>]

> Have you tried zipping up all her home directory files, deleting her
> account, adding her back and restoring whatever files you'd need from
> the zip file?
>

Haven't tried going that far yet.  I've delete pretty much everything out of
her home dir except her personal files (mostly just a bunch of
pictures/movies/mp3's).  I'll give that a try though.

> Do you get this behavior with a "test" account?

Haven't had the time.  Later tonight I should, and I'll do a more thourough
investigation.

On a positive note, she's told me that she managed to get in using the GNOME
failsafe session (not sure if that's Debian-specific or not).  She hasn't
tried logging out and back on (using normal GNOME session) yet, and doesn't
seem to want to interupt her work at the moment (UNIX talk is our friend).
I'm going to have to go through the two sessions though and see what's
different.  ^,^

Thanks!

>
> John
> On 08/29/01, 05:09:44AM -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
>> Greetings!
>>
>> I have recently run into a weird problem.  On my home workstation, I
>> can log in on my account fine (in GNOME) with no problems.  However,
>> if my girlfriend logs in, Sawfish doesn't seem to start (a couple
>> "panels" show in the tasklist).  Also, when I start
>> gnome-control-center, the CPU usage of XFree86 umps up to around 99%,
>> and not long from that either X crashes or gnome-session crashes,
>> because she's thrown back to GDM.
>>
>> I've had a hard time debugging the problem, since very rarely is she
>> home using the computer when I'm there.  I've tried deleting all of
>> her GNOME related settings (gnome, nautilus, esd, etc.).  I've deleted
>> related files in /tmp (like her orbit entry).  The problem persists.
>> I think there's a weird bug in Sawfish.
>>
>> To make the problem harder to debug, I'm running Debian Unstable/Sid,
>> which means it could very well be a bug on their part.  I thought I'd
>> ask here first, though.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Sean Etc.
>
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> John P. Verel