Fedora core 7

[Rick Sivernell]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:10:40 -0500
vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 23:49 -0500, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:35:27 -0500
> > vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 23:23 -0500, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:03:50 -0500
> > > > vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 22:40 -0500, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > > > > > All
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >   I have a very bad problem. This afternoon had some kind of wird stuff happening to my system. So I rebooted the system. Now I can open an root session, but not a user session.
> > > > > > In fact ls -al returns nothing on the conso;le screen in command line. I can go anywhere, just can not see anything. In root console all is normal. Anyone know how to fix this?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > A 3 week old FC 7 install.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > Can you ssh to this system from another one ? If so, then try ls -al
> > > > > from the remote system.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have no experience with FC7, but I think may be some wrong settings of
> > > > > terminal ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Vu
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Vu
> > > > 
> > > >   Yes, works the same, root sees everything, user sees nothing. When I do try to login to user, I get /home/.dmrc being skipped, .bmrc must be 644 and users' home dir must be xrw for user.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Does 'which ls' show the same when you log in as root and as non-root
> > > user ?
> > > 
> > > Have you tried /bin/ls instead of just ls ?
> > > 
> > > Vu
> > > 
> > > 
> > Vu
> > 
> > That does work, /bin/ls /bin/ls -al, now I see the proper listing, it seems like a script is hosed or missing to install bash or the user settings.
> > 
> 
> My F7 , which was installed two hours ago, shows ls is an alias 
> 
> alias ls='ls --color=tty'
>         /bin/ls
> 
> Maybe you have some wrong settings of the tty.
> 
> You can try 'unalias ls' to clear that settings then you can use just ls
> instead of having to type the full path /bin/ls.
> 
> Vu

well, checking groups / owners, all seems to be correct. /home/rick is owned by rick and group rick with an id of 501.

let restate the problem. 

When trying to log into the system as a user, I get the following:

1  .dmrc ignored, permissions need to be set to 644 and user directory set to 755.
2  Trying to use gnome, I get the message user being added to access control list, could not exec gnome-session. and returns to login screen.
3 I can log in and get the fwm system only, just nothing there to use. KDE or any other GUI system has the same problem as gnome can not exec .

The ll ls -al problem is a symtom of the main problem. Yes ll is an alias, used the same in most Nixes as such. 

I can however login 9into any system as root, but that is not what Iwant to work in.

Rick