Bernd Eilers wrote:
Hi Alex,
Well, I don´t have a Fedore Core 3 here but from general Unix
knowlegde this looks like a problem with the global XSession script (
usually in /etc/X11/xdm, if you don´t find it there look up the
location in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config ) or with the users
$HOME/.xsession script.
What could that problem be? I look at the contents of that file and
can't tell if anythings wrong or not.
Normally after logging in the xdm (or kdm if you use KDE ) program,
that is the one presenting the login box, starts XStartup as root and
than the XSession script as user. The xdm program detects that the X
session ends when the XSession script ends. The XSession script in
/etc/X11/xdm usually looks if a $HOME/.xsession script exists and
starts that if it´s present. In your case it looks like the user root
has a working $HOME/.xsession script and others not. What is usually
done in $HOME/.xsession or in /etc/X11/xdm/XSession if $HOME/.xsession
is not present is that some X11 programs are started in the background
and than at the end one last X11 program is started in the foreground
so that xdm can wait for this one to end to detect that the session
has ended. This last program is normally the window manager. The
mistake that seems to happen in your case is that everything which is
started there is being started in the background and there is no
program left to wait for. See the manual for xdm(1) for details. Or it
could be wrong permissions on $HOME/.xsession or something alike.
How can I tell if this is true or not on my system? I didn't see
anything obvious to me in any Xsession file.
I am not sure wether OOo installation tries to do something with
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession or $HOME/.xsession. If it is reproducable that
OOo installation messes one of those files up on Fedora please file an
issue on issuzilla
http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html
I can't imagine why the OOo install process would mess with this stuff.
I think this is a fluke. If I do get it fixed I will have to try
re-installing, but I'll cry if it does this again. :-(
Kind regards,
Bernd Eilers
Thanks for the kind offer of help, but this is really getting to be over
my head at this time. I will need to do a lot of homework to understand
what you speak of.
I looked in /var/log/messages, but I didn't see anything I thought was
unusual.
I don't understand what could have happened during the installation
process. Some kind of corruption, obviously. But, I need some clue in
order to fix this. It seems related to something more basic than Gnome
or KDE, something that underlies them.
I think posting to a Redhat forum might be in order here. :-\
Alex
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