Art Wildman wrote: > Jason Edgecombe wrote: > >> hi everyone, >> >> I'm using nss_db to store more of the user account info instead of using >> /etc/passwd. Only the system accounts are in /etc/passwd, while the >> 1000+ user accounts are in /var/db/passwd.db. I have set >> /etc/nsswitch.conf to contain "passwd: files db" and "passwd: db files", >> but either way, gnome-session takes 20+ seconds to load. I can login >> normally at a text login prompt and the KDE login is fast, like <2 >> seconds. The gnome-session is fast, but only if I put the user's info >> into /etc/passwd. "getent passwd user >> /etc/passwd" is the command >> that I have used to do that. I'm baffled as to why gnome-session is not >> playing nicely with nss_db. Things are OK about a minute after login, >> but the gnome login is horribly slow when the user's info isn't in >> /etc/passwd. >> >> >> > > I've seen problems with GDM Logins when the /etc/hosts file had an > incorrect 'localhost' line. Is this StaticIP or DHCP? Not sure if it's > related to your nss_db or nsswitch.conf, but GDM is picky about > LocalHost-127.0.0.1, Hostname & DNS settings. > > /etc/hosts - StaticIP > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 myhost.domain myhost localhost.localdomain localhost > ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 > > > Jason Edgecombe wrote: > I finally found some useful Logs in ~/.xsession-errors: > > /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "trng02" > localuser:trng02 being added to access control list > No profile for user 'trng02' found > SESSION_MANAGER=local/lws10:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3522 > Connecting to system bus failed: Did not receive a reply. Possible > causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message > bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the > network connection was broken. > > No profile for user 'trng02' found... Can GDM get to $HOME? Does this > work on a clean homedir as a new user? You might try removing some > .ICEauthority files & .Xauthority files from the users $HOME as they > should be recreated properly at login. > I have an incident open with RedHat, but it's taking a while to find a resolution. My own hunting has lead me to dbus as the culprit. "dbus-monitor --system" gives me an error when the user isn't in /etc/passwd, but is in the nss db. In addition, running "/etc/init.d/messagebus stop" before logging into GDM makes things fast. I'll do some more hunting to narrow it down further.
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