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Old 05-09-2004, 09:13 AM   #1
Nylex
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Newly installed Slack 9.1 problem - can't log in to GUI


As the title says, I've just installed Slack 9.1 on my machine. Booted up, logged in as root and created a user account. Then as root, I ran gdm and tried to log in to GNOME with my user account and got the following error message:

"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."

There's a "View details (~/.xsession-errors file)" option which shows me this:

/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm:0.Xservers" - h "" -l :0 nick

If I try the failsafe sessions, the same thing happens. Logging in as root kinda works.. GNOME starts loading, then freezes while it's trying to load Nautilus.

Any ideas what I can do to fix this? Thanx.
 
Old 05-09-2004, 03:56 PM   #2
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Mistakes that I have made before... Did you create your user a home directory? Did you chown the home directory to the user and make sure that the user has read+write access to the directory? Check with
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ls -l /home
If it's not that then I don't know.
It should always work with root though, that sounds strange.
 
Old 05-10-2004, 12:28 AM   #3
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That works, only there are no icons on the desktop. Nautilus won't run cos CD Paranoia libraries are missing. How do I get them off my Slack CDs? /mnt/cdrom is empty :/. Thanks.

Last edited by Nylex; 05-10-2004 at 12:41 AM.
 
  


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