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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