On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 11:12:08AM -0400, dan moylan wrote: > as root i did an adduser mem (wife) and rebooted. again > trying moylan, i was returned to the loging screen. trying > mem, it went off into never never land. rebooted and went > back in as root, all ok. [...] > what next?
Some more places to look: /var/log/secure.log /var/log/auth.log ~/.xsession-errors So, from what you described it sounds like you're successfully authenticating, but your X session is dying prematurely. I would expect to see some errors logged in either the X server log (sounds like you looked there already) or your .xsession-errors file. If none of the above turn up anything useful, you might also scan your home directory for files you can't write to... it's possible that your session is barfing because it can't write some state in your home directory. To find files not owned by you, this should work: $ export USERID=`id -u` $ find $HOME ! -uid $USERID Finding non-writable files can be done with: $ find $HOME ! -writable It's not perfect, but should work well enough for you as long as your files are local and not on some "weird" file system. Also, IIRC, I somewhat recently ran into some behavior regarding permissions on mountpoints that surprised me, though in typical fashion I don't recall the details. One of your messages made it sound like your home directory is mounted directly on a mount point. If that's the case, I might also take a look at the mount point's directory permissions both while it is mounted and is not mounted, and make sure they are what you expect them to be. Hope that helps... -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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