Hi, On Tue, 06 Feb 2007, Paul J. Thompson wrote:
> See below, it would appear to be failing to authenticate at some point. I > have to admit that I am quite lost here. It appears to be the X11 forwarding that's failing. It's authentication of a sort I guess. > No /home/jiao/.xsession-errors file present although pjt (the successful > login) has one. However its errors are just related to an application that > is no present How about .Xauthority? Is it being written. If not what permissions does it have and what permissions does that home directory have? Make sure the user can write to /home/jiao/.Xauthority http://www.hummingbird.com/support/nc/exceed/exc1003306.html?cks=y > From auth.log > > Feb 6 11:42:35 pjhome sshd[5270]: Accepted password for jiao from > 192.168.0.249 port 4359 ssh2 > Feb 6 11:42:35 pjhome sshd[5272]: (pam_unix) session opened for user jiao > by (uid=0) Looks perfect. > debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. > debug1: Sending environment. > debug1: Sending comand: /bin/bash --login -c ' env > LTSP_CLIENT="pjhome"/etc/X11/Xsession ' ; kill -1 $PPID > /usr/bin/X11/xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/jiao/.Xauthority This looks like your problem to me. Your X authentication fails and you can't therefore start an X session so all else bombs. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
