Cannot login

chichibabin · 11-12-2003, 09:08 PM

Hi
I have just installed kernel 2.4.22 and it booted up fine. After a couple of reboots when I login a dialogue box appears sying "Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or that you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem"
I can login in failsafe mode but what should I be looking for??
Cheers,
Sat

neo77777 · 11-12-2003, 09:16 PM

df -k
I would think.

trickykid · 11-12-2003, 09:17 PM

Change the permissions or check your users home directory permissions.

Should be set to rwxr-xr-x at a minimum.

Or just do a chmod -R 755 /home/<user>

chichibabin · 11-13-2003, 04:53 AM

Hi,
there is plenty of disk space available and the permissions are set as suggested. This problem only occurs when I try to boot the recently installed 2.4.22 kernel, the older kernels I have installed work fine. It also happens when I try to log in as root.
The first two times I managed to boot the kernel ,when checking dependencies, it mentioned problems with two modules. However, this error does not appear anymore but I cannot login.
Cheers,
Sat

trickykid · 11-13-2003, 08:05 AM

And all the files in the home directory are owned by the user at least?

I also assume your logging in graphically I take it? Can you switch terminals and login at a console? ctrl-alt-F2

chichibabin · 11-13-2003, 08:30 AM

Hi,
All files in my home directory are owned by me except .. which is owned by root. I can log in at a console as root and as my user name.
Cheers
Sat

chichibabin · 11-13-2003, 08:30 AM

A .xsession-errors file is generated in ~/ but the file is empty.