Re: gdm: first login fails, second one suceeds: why?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"John P. Verel" <jverel optonline net> writes:
> This is a repost, forgive me.
> 
> It sometimes happens that upon first login to gdm,  
> gdm-2.2.3.1-20, that with user and password correct, I screen blanks,
> gdm comes back.  Second login works.
> 
> Tonight I found and cleaned out a mess of files in ~/.gnome like this:
> 
> -rw-------    1 john     john            2 Dec 11 21:59 /home/john/.gnome/.gnome-smproxy-t4yKsZ
> 
> They were up to a month old.
> 
> After deleting them, the problem seemed to go away.
> 
> Am I on the right track on this?

Maybe, I don't see an obvious reason those files matter though.

Have you tried looking in ~/.xsession-errors after the failed login?
(before logging in again?)

Havoc