On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 08:45:48PM -0700, Michael Levashov wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with my gentoo installation. > I just reinstalled my system from scratch. > My kernel version is 2.6.12 gentoo-sources. > I have the latest stable version of all packages for x86. > > Most of my difficulties were solved through google, but I can't find > much useful info for this one, so any help would be appreciated. > > When my gdm launches at startup and I try to login as a normal user > (lets call him "username"), I get the following error > (~/.xsession-errors):
As the user that this doesn't work for, run `xauth list`. It will list the xauth cookies that this person has. Xauth is the default/more secure authentication method for X: xhost is ip based and is largely insecure. Then do the same as root. Check for differences. Make sure the user's $HOME/.Xauthority file exists and has the right permissions. You said you are running gdm? Just as a data point to see what is getting screwed up, trying turning off gdm (one way is to change /etc/inittab "id:5:initdefault:" to "id:3:initdefault:" and reboot) and running X from a non-priv user via `startx`. If that works, the problem is with gdm, if not, then you have a more fundamental problem with X. This should give you some info about where to go from here. - Rob .
