On January 11, 2004 07:04 pm, Michael Stilson Jr. wrote:
> Just got done emerging xfree and gnome. My root user can log into gnome
> fine (obviously), but my regular user (groups: users, wheel, audio)
> cannot log in to gnome. Looks like permission errors.
>
> Is there a group or groups that I should add my user to? I read through
> the Desktop Configuration Guide (DCG), but didn't find anything along
> these lines. In fact I followed the DCG during the emerge process.

what errors do you get if you try running "startx" as a regular user?  also 
check to make sure that (a) all files in /home/<username>/ are owned by that 
user and that that user can write to /tmp/

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