Thanks to all who helped. It was a combination of things actually. First,
what Jeff mentioned turned out to be true. I am running Helix code, and that
library was missing. I forget the name off the top of my head.
Second, my homedir was full. So, those errors turned out to be the result of
a more serious problem. I share my homedir with someone else who refuses to
do periodic house cleaning. i.e. they have over 1.5 gigs of just mail.
Anyway, I'm all set. Thanks everyone.
-bmb-
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffry Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 10:08 AM
> To: Boerner, Brian
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: Gnome crashes and I cant start X
>
>
> > I recently rebooted my system (actually the system went
> down hard) and now I
> > can't log in from the X login screen.
> >
> > If I log in via the console and type startx, X comes up but
> it's drastically
> > different than what I was used to.
> >
> > /var/log/messages has the following entries:
> > date enomem PAM_pwdb[791]: (gdm) session opened for user
> bmb by (uid=0)
> > date enomem automount[462]: attempting to mount entry /home/bmb
> > date enomem gdm[791]: gdm_auth_user_remove: /home/bmb is
> not owned by uid 0.
> > date enomem gdm[791]: gdm_auth_user_remove: Ignoring
> suspiciously looking
> > cookie file /home/bmb/.Xauthority
> >
> > Has anyone experienced this before. I don't know much about
> X so when it
> > breaks I'm really hurting.
> >
> > -bmb-
> >
>
> Have you upgraded Gnome recently (especially via Helix)?
> Check in your
> home-directory .gnome-errors. I found out that the upgrade
> last-week removed
> an important library, and didn't replace it. I got the same
> errors you're
> showing, but when I checked .gnome-errors, it indicated it
> couldn't find that
> library (wish I could remember exactly which one, it would help).
>
> Also, check if you can start X with something besides Gnome.
> This was my clue
> - I could start in blackbox just fine, but not in Gnome
>
> And no, I don't know why the error shows up like a security error.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> jeff
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> Jeffry Smith Technical Sales Consultant Mission
> Critical Linux
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone:603.930.9739 fax:978.446.9470
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> Thought for today: blow away vt.
>
> To remove (files and directories) from
> permanent storage, generally by accident. "He reformatted the
> wrong partition and blew away last night's netnews." Oppose
> nuke.
>
>
>
>
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