Can only log into Gnome as root user...

**Dillinger** · 08-03-2003

I try to log in as my regular user and it gives me the following message: your session lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean there is some installation problems or that you may be out of disk space. Try logging in with one of the faila=safe sessions to see if you can fix this problem. Then when I clicked to see the error it gave me this:
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession//Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession//Default: running: sessreg -a -w /var/log/utmp -u /var/run/utemp * "/var/lib/gdm/:0.X servers " -h "" -1:0 tyler

I think it's telling me that it's not reading the /home directory properly but I'm not sure. I don't knnow if this has anything to do with it but earlier today I ended up copying my entire root directory onto a backup partition, deleting the current root and swap partitions so I could make the root partition larger and copied everything back over. Originally I had a 2.5gb root parition, the swap and then a 20 gb home partition. The root ran out of room so I decided just to have root and home on the same partition and made it 30gb. That's all, thanks in advance for any ideas...

**Dolda2000** · 08-03-2003

When you copied everything over, did you preserve all file metadata (perms etc.) correctly?

**Dillinger** · 08-03-2003

You're right, I didn't. How should I have copied them over then, cp -Rp?

Code:

drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug  2 13&#58;42 bin
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Aug  2 13&#58;43 boot
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 dev
drwxr-xr-x   49 root     root         4096 Aug  3 13&#58;29 etc
drwxrwxrwx    4 root     users         4096 Aug  2 14&#58;20 home
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 Aug  2 13&#58;43 lib
drwx------    2 root     root        16384 Aug  2 13&#58;40 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Aug  2 13&#58;43 mnt
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Aug  2 13&#58;44 opt
dr-xr-xr-x   64 root     root            0 Aug  3 13&#58;10 proc
drwx------   17 root     root         4096 Aug  3 13&#58;11 root
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug  2 13&#58;44 sbin
drwxr-xr-t    8 root     root         4096 Aug  3 13&#58;11 tmp
drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root         4096 Aug  2 14&#58;24 usr
drwxr-xr-x   12 root     root         4096 Aug  2 13&#58;56 var

This is what it is now. I've tried everything, setting the chmod to 0777 on /home and /home/tyler. Since setting the chmod now it's giving me a different error saying GDM could not write to your authorization file. This could mean you are out of disk space or your home directory could not be opened for writing. Definetly not out of disk space and I have read/write access to all users and groups so I don't know what's going on.

**Dolda2000** · 08-03-2003

It does seem rather mysterious. I don't really want to go to these extremes, since I don't know how good you are with programming, but could you try stracing the session processes?

**Dillinger** · 08-04-2003

I emerged strace, how do I use it to do what you're asking? Just a thought would this have anything to do with the way the user is made? useradd your_user -m -G users,wheel,audio -s /bin/bash is what the Gentoo docs said to do and that's what I did.

**Dolda2000** · 08-04-2003

Well, I would check the PID of the gdm (you're using gdm, right?) process, and then run this:

Code:

strace -o gnome -ff -p <gdm pid>

Then it will rather slow and it will create several pretty large files that will contain all the syscalls that the processes use. It allows one to see which one it is that fails, provided that one can understand them.

**Dillinger** · 08-04-2003

There were two gdms, both gave the same error:

Code:

-bash&#58; syntax error near unexpected token `951'
-bash&#58; syntax error near unexpected token `949'

**Dolda2000** · 08-04-2003

What I meant was for you to replace <gdm pid> with the PID, like strace -o gnome -ff -p 949.

**Dillinger** · 08-04-2003

Code:

Process 951 attached - interrupt to quit
trace&#58; ptrace&#40;PTRACE_SYSCALL, ...&#41;&#58; Operation not permitted
detach&#58; ptrace&#40;PTRACE_DETACH, ...&#41;&#58; Operation not permitted
Process 951 detached

**Dolda2000** · 08-04-2003

Yeah, sorry, you must run it as root.

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