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User not logging on to GNOME or KDE on SUSE 10.1

Hi I have SUSE 10.1 and basically one of my users can't log on. When I select a KDE session (using kdm here btw) it waits for like 10 mins and then spits out something about dcopserver, when I select gnome it just displays the background image for a while and then restarts X when I have XGL enabled I try to log on and after a few seconds the screen goes blank and vertical multicoloured lines appear starting about halfway up and going to the bottom of the screen. When I use Openbox (without XGL) it works fine, it also works fine for other users, on the day that this happened I had just installed libmtp to get my MP3er working, and updated XGL.

Thanks for any help

I can't comment on XGL or libmtp, but the other two things may be permission
issues; check whether the user owns ALL files in his home, and whether all
files in /tmp that have his username in their name are owned by him, too, and
that /tmp is 1777

Cheers,
Tink

OK, don't have time now but I will try that tomorrow

I have not done this as it seems that if the computer is rebooted, this happens with every new user that was created in the previous session - eg. I created the user joe when this happened with the username tiddy, now I have rebooted and the same thing happens with joe as with tiddy.

Also, this only happens with KDE and gnome, I am using openbox atm. Here is contents of /home/joe/.xsession-errors if it will help:

Code:

/etc/X11/xim: Checking wether an input method should be started.

INPUT_METHOD is not set or empty (no user selected input method).

Trying to start a default input method for the locale en_GB.UTF-8 ...

There is no default input method for the current locale.

I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/joe/.config/openbox/rc.xml"

I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/usr/local/etc/xdg/openbox/rc.xml"



(/usr/X11R6/bin/openbox:4807): ObRender-WARNING **: Unable to load font: Bitstream Vera Sans:bold:pixelsize=9:shadow=y:shadowoffset=1:shadowtint=75





(/usr/X11R6/bin/openbox:4807): ObRender-WARNING **: Trying fallback font: sans





(/usr/X11R6/bin/openbox:4807): ObRender-WARNING **: Unable to load font: Bitstream Vera Sans:bold:pixelsize=9:shadow=y:shadowoffset=1:shadowtint=75





(/usr/X11R6/bin/openbox:4807): ObRender-WARNING **: Trying fallback font: sans



I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/joe/.config/openbox/menu.xml"

I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/usr/local/etc/xdg/openbox/menu.xml"

You don't need to boot the computer to check permissions?

Cheers,
Tink

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean

Hello? Is anybody going to reply to this post or do I have to figure it out myself?

Did you check the permissions as I stated above?

Sorry, I can't believe I've been this dumb. I have no idea why but /home/tiddy has user joe! Very sorry for wasting everyones time.

Don't you wish you had checked permissions on the 22nd? :}

Cheers,
Tink