On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 20:08, a park wrote: > i managed to setup gdm so that it appears when i fire up my desktop, but it > will not allow me to login to it with another user other than root. it is > not an authentication problem. it gives me the "the session lasted less > than ten seconds..." error message. is there a place to set permissions for > non-root users to use gdm / x. btw, i added the name of the machine (in > this case "flanker") to the /etc/hosts as (127.0.0.1) because i use dhcp.
A few ideas: Check the permissions on /tmp $ ls -ld /tmp/ drwxrwxrwt 25 root root 733184 Sep 27 21:06 /tmp/ Try chmod -R 1777 /tmp. Could also try deleting /tmp and recreating it, then chmod 1777 /tmp. Delete ~/.Xauthority if that doesn't help.
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