Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-18 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings,

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM, mark m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 itxakaserr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Enviado desde mi iPhone
 El 18/09/2009, a las 04:39, mark m.r...@5-cent.us escribió:

 R P Herrold wrote:
 On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, mark wrote:

   I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server
 continues to send error messages to /var/log/messages that
 gdm-simple-greeter can't find some file in a user's (another
 admin, actually) home directory. Any ideas where it's
 getting it from?

There are couple of directories starting with '.' (i.e. hidden ones)
pertaining to gnome .gconf, .gdm maybe you can find the answers there.

/me putting up the sheild for hiding from insufficient accuracy missiles

Regards

Rajagopal
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Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-18 Thread m . roth
 Greetings,

 On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM, mark m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 itxakaserr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Enviado desde mi iPhone
 El 18/09/2009, a las 04:39, mark m.r...@5-cent.us escribió:
 R P Herrold wrote:
 On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, mark wrote:

   I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server
 continues to send error messages to /var/log/messages that
 gdm-simple-greeter can't find some file in a user's (another
 admin, actually) home directory. Any ideas where it's
 getting it from?

 There are couple of directories starting with '.' (i.e. hidden ones)
 pertaining to gnome .gconf, .gdm maybe you can find the answers there.

 /me putting up the sheild for hiding from insufficient accuracy missiles

Yeah, I always alias ll=ls -laF, so they're never hidden from me. g

Anyway, the situation is that users logging onto this system, as most of
our systems, get their home directory automounted. However, this guy
hasn't been on this system most of the time I've tried to find this error.

Based on that, it's got to be somewhere in a *system* file, not in a home
directory, yet it complains:
gdm-simple-greeter[2361]: GLib-GIO-WARNING: Missing callback called
fullpath = /home/username/.face#012

Now, I found /var/lib/gdm, and have looked under .config, .gconf, and
.gconfd, and not found it. I have also killed the simple greeter, and it
respawned, and started griping again.

So, where is it storing this, and, more important, *WHY* is it caching
this? Ideally, I'd like to not only clear whatever's causing it now, but
also change the relevant system configuration file so that it doesn't
happen again.

 mark


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Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-18 Thread David Fix
grep face /home/username -r 

:) 

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Senior Systems Administrator 
Mr. X Inc. 


- Original Message - 
From: m roth m.r...@5-cent.us 
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org 
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:01:27 AM 
Subject: Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config? 

 Greetings, 
 
 On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM, mark m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: 
 itxakaserr...@gmail.com wrote: 
 Enviado desde mi iPhone 
 El 18/09/2009, a las 04:39, mark m.r...@5-cent.us escribió: 
 R P Herrold wrote: 
 On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, mark wrote: 
 
 I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server 
 continues to send error messages to /var/log/messages that 
 gdm-simple-greeter can't find some file in a user's (another 
 admin, actually) home directory. Any ideas where it's 
 getting it from? 
 
 There are couple of directories starting with '.' (i.e. hidden ones) 
 pertaining to gnome .gconf, .gdm maybe you can find the answers there. 
 
 /me putting up the sheild for hiding from insufficient accuracy missiles 

Yeah, I always alias ll=ls -laF, so they're never hidden from me. g 

Anyway, the situation is that users logging onto this system, as most of 
our systems, get their home directory automounted. However, this guy 
hasn't been on this system most of the time I've tried to find this error. 

Based on that, it's got to be somewhere in a *system* file, not in a home 
directory, yet it complains: 
gdm-simple-greeter[2361]: GLib-GIO-WARNING: Missing callback called 
fullpath = /home/username/.face#012 

Now, I found /var/lib/gdm, and have looked under .config, .gconf, and 
.gconfd, and not found it. I have also killed the simple greeter, and it 
respawned, and started griping again. 

So, where is it storing this, and, more important, *WHY* is it caching 
this? Ideally, I'd like to not only clear whatever's causing it now, but 
also change the relevant system configuration file so that it doesn't 
happen again. 

mark 


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Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-18 Thread m . roth
 grep face /home/username -r

 :)

Please. I'm not send me the directions how to set up ssl with my web
server.

I've tried, as last resorts,
find /var -type f -exec grep -il username/.face {} \;
and in addition to /var, I tried /etc and /tmp, and the *only* thing grep
gave me were the logfiles that had the entries.

Now, does anyone have any other suggestions?

   mark there's reasons I'm not hot on gnome
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 Senior Systems Administrator
 Mr. X Inc.


 - Original Message -
 From: m roth m.r...@5-cent.us
 To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
 Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:01:27 AM
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

 Greetings,

 On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM, mark m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 itxakaserr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Enviado desde mi iPhone
 El 18/09/2009, a las 04:39, mark m.r...@5-cent.us escribió:
 R P Herrold wrote:
 On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, mark wrote:

 I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server
 continues to send error messages to /var/log/messages that
 gdm-simple-greeter can't find some file in a user's (another
 admin, actually) home directory. Any ideas where it's
 getting it from?

 There are couple of directories starting with '.' (i.e. hidden ones)
 pertaining to gnome .gconf, .gdm maybe you can find the answers there.

 /me putting up the sheild for hiding from insufficient accuracy
 missiles

 Yeah, I always alias ll=ls -laF, so they're never hidden from me. g

 Anyway, the situation is that users logging onto this system, as most of
 our systems, get their home directory automounted. However, this guy
 hasn't been on this system most of the time I've tried to find this error.

 Based on that, it's got to be somewhere in a *system* file, not in a home
 directory, yet it complains:
 gdm-simple-greeter[2361]: GLib-GIO-WARNING: Missing callback called
 fullpath = /home/username/.face#012

 Now, I found /var/lib/gdm, and have looked under .config, .gconf, and
 .gconfd, and not found it. I have also killed the simple greeter, and it
 respawned, and started griping again.

 So, where is it storing this, and, more important, *WHY* is it caching
 this? Ideally, I'd like to not only clear whatever's causing it now, but
 also change the relevant system configuration file so that it doesn't
 happen again.

 mark


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Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-18 Thread m . roth
 grep face /home/username -r

 :)

Oh, yes, the point I realized I should mention as I hit send: I thought
I mentioned that when I look at the log, that the user is NOT LOGGED ON,
and that the home directories were automounted at login.

   mark gnome, gnome and deranged

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 Mr. X Inc.


 - Original Message -
 From: m roth m.r...@5-cent.us
 To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
 Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:01:27 AM
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

 Greetings,

 On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM, mark m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 itxakaserr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Enviado desde mi iPhone
 El 18/09/2009, a las 04:39, mark m.r...@5-cent.us escribió:
 R P Herrold wrote:
 On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, mark wrote:

 I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server
 continues to send error messages to /var/log/messages that
 gdm-simple-greeter can't find some file in a user's (another
 admin, actually) home directory. Any ideas where it's
 getting it from?

 There are couple of directories starting with '.' (i.e. hidden ones)
 pertaining to gnome .gconf, .gdm maybe you can find the answers there.

 /me putting up the sheild for hiding from insufficient accuracy
 missiles

 Yeah, I always alias ll=ls -laF, so they're never hidden from me. g

 Anyway, the situation is that users logging onto this system, as most of
 our systems, get their home directory automounted. However, this guy
 hasn't been on this system most of the time I've tried to find this error.

 Based on that, it's got to be somewhere in a *system* file, not in a home
 directory, yet it complains:
 gdm-simple-greeter[2361]: GLib-GIO-WARNING: Missing callback called
 fullpath = /home/username/.face#012

 Now, I found /var/lib/gdm, and have looked under .config, .gconf, and
 .gconfd, and not found it. I have also killed the simple greeter, and it
 respawned, and started griping again.

 So, where is it storing this, and, more important, *WHY* is it caching
 this? Ideally, I'd like to not only clear whatever's causing it now, but
 also change the relevant system configuration file so that it doesn't
 happen again.

 mark


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Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-18 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi,

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:42,  m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 grep face /home/username -r

 Please. I'm not send me the directions how to set up ssl with my web
 server.

 I've tried, as last resorts,
 find /var -type f -exec grep -il username/.face {} \;
 and in addition to /var, I tried /etc and /tmp, and the *only* thing grep
 gave me were the logfiles that had the entries.

But you clearly have ADD or something...

The file is probably referred in one of the .gnome*/.gconf* files
inside the home directory. Just because the home is not mounted at the
time of login it doesn't mean that the gdm-greeter won't mount it,
then read its config files from there, then try to look for the
missing file.

It's probably related to a saved gnome session, so you could just log
in as that user and run the gnome-session-save command to see if the
issue will happen again on the next login.

HTH,
Filipe
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Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-18 Thread m . roth
 Hi,

 On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:42,  m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 grep face /home/username -r

 Please. I'm not send me the directions how to set up ssl with my web
 server.

 I've tried, as last resorts,
 find /var -type f -exec grep -il username/.face {} \;
 and in addition to /var, I tried /etc and /tmp, and the *only* thing
 grep
 gave me were the logfiles that had the entries.

 But you clearly have ADD or something...

Why is that?

 The file is probably referred in one of the .gnome*/.gconf* files
 inside the home directory. Just because the home is not mounted at the
 time of login it doesn't mean that the gdm-greeter won't mount it,
 then read its config files from there, then try to look for the
 missing file.
snip
Oh, so the answer to my question is that gnome's simple greeter is reading
*his* configuration files - is this as he's logging on? - from his home
directory.

However, I don't see the message from any other server (and we have a good
number), so I don't understand why it wouldn't show up from another 10-30
machines.

But obviously I'm missing something that you're overlooking in your
over-familiarity with gnome and gnome-simple-greeter.

 mark


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Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-18 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi,

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:54,  m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 grep face /home/username -r

 However, I don't see the message from any other server (and we have a good
 number), so I don't understand why it wouldn't show up from another 10-30
 machines.

Well, did you at least *look* in his home directory? If you look and
it's not there, it's probably something else, but I don't think you
should discard that before actually looking at it.

HTH,
Filipe
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Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-18 Thread m . roth
 Hi,

 On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:54,  m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 grep face /home/username -r

 However, I don't see the message from any other server (and we have a
 good number), so I don't understand why it wouldn't show up from another
 10-30 machines.

 Well, did you at least *look* in his home directory? If you look and
 it's not there, it's probably something else, but I don't think you
 should discard that before actually looking at it.

I really don't see that I need to: his home directory's on another system,
and I don't see it happening from logs from any other system running gnome
when he logs on, and he tells me he doesn't know anything about it,
either, and since he's been a sysadmin here for years, and knows the
systems, I believe him.

It has to be stored somewhere on this one server. Can you suggest any
reason that you think it's not?

*IF* I understand this correctly, the simple greeter shows up when you
wake up the screensaver, and displays the names of those recently logged
in, and it *seems* as though it can also display pictures. Given the
location and filename, I was assuming that it gets them that way. which
would imply that it might work *if* the home directory was always mounted,
not automounted on logon.

With those assumptions, my guess was that there's a configuration that
tells it to look in a user's home directory for such a file.

 mark

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[CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-17 Thread mark
Folks,

I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server continues to send 
error messages to /var/log/messages that gdm-simple-greeter can't find some 
file in a user's (another admin, actually) home directory. Any ideas where it's 
getting it from?

mark
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[CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, mark wrote:

I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server 
 continues to send error messages to /var/log/messages that 
 gdm-simple-greeter can't find some file in a user's (another 
 admin, actually) home directory. Any ideas where it's 
 getting it from?

'some file' ???
'it's getting it' ??? [pronoun h*ll there]

Heck, we don't even know what the name of the file that gdm is 
seeking, yet from your post  ;)

The content of those error messages in /var/log/messages are 
known only to you at this point ... not that it is getting it 
got anyway

-- Russ herrold
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Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-17 Thread mark
R P Herrold wrote:
 On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, mark wrote:
 
I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server 
 continues to send error messages to /var/log/messages that 
 gdm-simple-greeter can't find some file in a user's (another 
 admin, actually) home directory. Any ideas where it's 
 getting it from?
 
 'some file' ???
 'it's getting it' ??? [pronoun h*ll there]
 
 Heck, we don't even know what the name of the file that gdm is 
 seeking, yet from your post  ;)
 
Why do you need to? It's /home/username?/something/filename. What I was asking 
is *WHERE* gdm-simple-greeter could have gotten that name in the first place, 
as *if* I understand correctly, it's gnome's logon program, and (I'm not a 
gnome person) possibly, from the researching I've done, seems to be able to 
store recently logged-in people. *If* it's the latter, is there some cache, 
whose path I don't know, that it could be storing the name and path?

Oh, and I also get the Glib-GDK-callback fullpath (if I'm remembering that 
correctly - I'm at home, not at work at the moment). I can post the latter full 
message tomorrow, but I do note that googling it, I keep finding references to 
bugs reported.

mark
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Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-17 Thread itxakaserrano


Enviado desde mi iPhone

El 18/09/2009, a las 04:39, mark m.r...@5-cent.us escribió:

 R P Herrold wrote:
 On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, mark wrote:

   I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server
 continues to send error messages to /var/log/messages that
 gdm-simple-greeter can't find some file in a user's (another
 admin, actually) home directory. Any ideas where it's
 getting it from?

 'some file' ???
 'it's getting it' ??? [pronoun h*ll there]

 Heck, we don't even know what the name of the file that gdm is
 seeking, yet from your post  ;)

 Why do you need to? It's /home/username?/something/filename. What I  
 was asking
 is *WHERE* gdm-simple-greeter could have gotten that name in the  
 first place,
 as *if* I understand correctly, it's gnome's logon program, and (I'm  
 not a
 gnome person) possibly, from the researching I've done, seems to be  
 able to
 store recently logged-in people. *If* it's the latter, is there some  
 cache,
 whose path I don't know, that it could be storing the name and path?

 Oh, and I also get the Glib-GDK-callback fullpath (if I'm  
 remembering that
 correctly - I'm at home, not at work at the moment). I can post the  
 latter full
 message tomorrow, but I do note that googling it, I keep finding  
 references to
 bugs reported.

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Could be something stored by gnome-session-save?

Itxaka Serrano
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Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

2009-09-17 Thread mark
itxakaserr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Enviado desde mi iPhone
 El 18/09/2009, a las 04:39, mark m.r...@5-cent.us escribió:
 
 R P Herrold wrote:
 On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, mark wrote:

   I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server
 continues to send error messages to /var/log/messages that
 gdm-simple-greeter can't find some file in a user's (another
 admin, actually) home directory. Any ideas where it's
 getting it from?
snip
 Could be something stored by gnome-session-save?

So I don't have to find / -name gnome-session-save, where does gnome stash that 
file - is it under /var, or /etc?

mark

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