On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 07:10:35PM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I have an isolated LAN consisting of a Fedora NIS/NFS server and a
> handful of CentOS and Fedora workstations.    It has been a while
> since I last added a node, but I recently needed to.   NIS and NFS
> work fine - I can ssh into the new node with no problem.
> 
> But, for console login, whether I use KDE or GNOME, I get the infamous
> login, then immediate log out with the warning that I've been logged
> in for less than 10 seconds...
> 
> I've had this problem before, but it was a while back and I cannot
> recall how I fixed it.
> 
> Disk space is plentiful, and my account is fine because I can ssh into
> the box - console login is the problem.
> 
> I have no problem with console with any other node on this network to
> my account - just this new box.
> 
> /tmp has 1777 permissions.
> 
> How did I fix this the last time...???

Log in via ssh or by switching to a text console, and look at
~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log...  The answer will
probably be in one of those, I guess the first.  You might also try
the logs in /var/log/gdm, if the other two spots turn up nothing.

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