GDM thinks I am root

[Kevin Downey]

On 3/23/07, Timur Guseinov <timtch at gmail.com> wrote:
> try to change your home directory "chsh".
>
>
> 2007/3/22, Kevin Downey <redchin at gmail.com>:
> >
> > I have a laptop running 6.2-STABLE and modular Xorg, I have been
> > having trouble logging in using gdm for sometime, but with the new
> > gnome I get a more informative error message (how is that for
> > progress). When I log in a little window pops up and says something
> > like "cannot write to /root/.ICEauthority" which makes sense, because
> > I am not logging in as root so I should not be able to write to that.
> > What I can't figure out is why it is trying. Gnome then fails to
> > start. If I pick the 'Xclients' session from GDM a little window pops
> > up that says 'no Xclients file, launching failsafe terminal' so I get
> > a xterm. In the xterm 'whoami' returns 'kpd' (my user) but 'echo
> > $HOME' is '/root'.
> > Any ideas?
> >
My home directory is set correctly to /home/kpd (kpd is my username),
if I login any other way  I am not given a /root home directory, if I
login on the console and put gnome-session in my .xinitrc file gnome
starts up fine with the correct home directory
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