GDM Weirdness

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Wed Mar 24 21:44:06 PST 2004


On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 19:04, Jason Dusek wrote:
> 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:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2003-November/004020.html
> 
> 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?

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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