On 2011-09-12, at 12:51 PM, Steve Jahl wrote: >>>> >>>> I know I have successfully set up LDAP *and* NFS, because I can log in >>>> remotely with SSH as well as on a terminal. However, when I try to log >>> in >>>> with GDM or XDM, it will accept my password, black out the screen, and >>>> then return to either GDM or XDM. I *can*, however, log in with a local >>>> account. > > In my experience, if there's an auth failure, GDM prints a warning on the > login window, rather than blacking out the screen, and dumping you back to a > login window. Seeing as you can auth via other methods, I don't think this is > the case. You can probably find some info as to what's happening in the > /var/log/gdm/* log files. > > To me, it sounds to me like there's a crash somewhere in your gnome session. > Is there any relevant information in the ldap user's ~/.xsession-errors file? > > I've also seen this happen if there's a corrupted session state file > (~/.gnome2/session). You can try removing that, and see if if clears anything > up for you. > > -Steve
hrm... Well I'm able to log into other machines using my home directory, so I don't think it's the gnome session. I've tried removing *all* of ~/.gnome2 but that didn't work either. I do have some information in the .xsession-errors, but I can't tell if something is actually crashing or if something is just gracefully failing: =================== /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with utmp /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/sessreg -a -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "ctooley" localuser:ctooley being added to access control list No profile for user 'ctooley' found SESSION_MANAGER=local/<computer name>:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3305 Window manager warning: Failed to read theme from file /usr/share/themes/Slider/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml: Failed to open file '/usr/share/themes/Slider/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml': No such file or directory Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Slider": Failed to open file '/usr/share/themes/Slider/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml': No such file or directory Introspect error: The name edu.duke.linux.yum was not provided by any .service files Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/puplet", line 467, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/puplet", line 464, in main p.run() File "/usr/bin/puplet", line 451, in run self._refreshInfo() File "/usr/bin/puplet", line 191, in _refreshInfo if self.updatesObject is not None and \ AttributeError: DBusException instance has no attribute '_dbus_error_name' ** (nm-applet:3422): WARNING **: No connections defined ** (nm-applet:3422): WARNING **: Invalid return value type: GPtrArray_DBusGObjectPath_ Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension process 3403: Applications must not close shared connections - see dbus_connection_close() docs. This is a bug in the application. process 3403: Applications must not close shared connections - see dbus_connection_close() docs. This is a bug in the application. Window manager warning: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct. Window manager warning: Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with a timestamp of 0. This shouldn't happen! =================== A bunch of warnings, and some process "bug" reports. :\ -Chris