GDM Weirdness

[Jason Dusek]

I have found the solution!  Alot of gnome config files where lying 
around in /var/tmp for the users who couldn't login correctly - I had 
rmed them and added them so many times that there were many orbit and 
.gconf type files available for them.  For some reason, rmuser felt that 
these were not 'normal' files.  When I wacked the users again, and then 
cleaned out every reference to them in /var/tmp, I was able to add them 
and login without trouble.

~*\\~*~\\*~Cheers
~*~\\~*~\\~*~Jason



Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 19:04, Jason Dusek wrote:
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>>Hi All,
>>
>>I have an interesting problem - I rebooted the machine after rebuilding 
>>GNOME, and when I logged in through gdm I got the 'your session is not 
>>installed on this machine' error.  However, you guys have already 
>>answered that question:
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>>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2003-November/004020.html
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>>So I did what it said there and then I found that users in wheel could 
>>login, no problem - but users in other groups had all kinds of 
>>problems.  So I destroyed all my low level users.  And then I put them 
>>back in.  And now some of them work, and some of them don't.  Is there 
>>some kind of 'rebuild user database' command that I should be running?
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>If they can login from a vty, then they should be able to login from
>gdm.  The only database tool for user accounts is pwd_mkdb, but that
>usually gets run automatically after a user is added.
>
>Joe
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