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
Also, here's the gdm greeter log: =========== ** (<unknown>:2302): DEBUG: Client registered with session manager: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client1 ** (process:2324): DEBUG: Greeter session pid=2324 display=:0.0 xauthority=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-cWnJhZ/database (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2322): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `_PolkitError' (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2322): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed Failed to play sound: File or data not found gdm-simple-greeter[2324]: Gtk-WARNING: gtkwidget.c:5460: widget not within a GtkWindow Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x220002b (Login Wind) Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed. =========== So yeah, my google fu is not good enough for these problems. Besides getting into the actual source of GDM to see what's going on, I suppose I could do an strace...? -Chris