Fedora core 7

[Rick Sivernell]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:10:37 -0500
Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 07:49 -0500, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:10:40 -0500
> [...]
> > > 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,
> 
> If you create a new user, then can you login to that user under gnome ?
> 
> One time I had a similar problem ( with Suse 10.1 ) and I created
> another user which worked fine under gnome, then I compared the two
> directories. I do not remember exactly, but it seems some files under
> ~/.gnome or ~/.gnome2 was the culprit.
> 
> Vu
> 


yes I can create a new user ok, and will start. Will investigate further today.

Tim

messages:

"Your $HOME/.drmc file has incorrect permissions and is being ignored. This prevents the session from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 permissions."

The problem has been the same, can not loginto as a user. I did create a ne3w user and can log on as that user now.


Thanks


Rick