trouble starting Gnome session through XDMCP
- From: "Woods, Jeff" <jwoods sfwmd gov>
- To: <gnome-list gnome org>
- Subject: trouble starting Gnome session through XDMCP
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:54:28 -0400
I am having problems with a single user
establishing a Gnome session on
an X server using XDMCP. At the same
time, I have a number of other users
who are connecting to the same server
without any difficulty. My Gnome
installation is on a stock RHEL4 WS
workstation.
There are no local graphical logins on this server
-- it strictly serves
XDMCP sessions for about a dozen users. The one
user I am having trouble
with gets through gdm successfully, but then the
session hangs and is
eventually reset, returning her to the login
screen.
Things I have tried to this point
include:
1. renaming the .gnome, .gnome2, and
.gnome2_private directories so that
they no longer exist and will be
recreated.
2. Removing all xauthority
files.
3. renaming the user's home directory and
replacing it with an empty home
directory.
4. Logging onto a second server which shares
the same home directory is
only partially successful. The gnome session
will start, but the menu bars
at the top and bottom of the screen are only
partially initialized.
There are no messages in any log file that I have
found which would indicate
any problem. The /var/log/messages file
shows that a session was opened and
closed for the user.
This problem is not limited to a single X
server: I have tried running
Xnest from a Linux client and both Xming
and Reflections from a Windows
client. As I mentioned above, this is
the only user on the server who is
having trouble getting an XDMCP session --
other users connect without any
problems.
I have noticed that while the login is in its
"hung" state (after
authenticating the user but before returning to the login
manager), it
creates dozens of gnome_segv processes. At times, a core
file is left in
the user's home directory, but this is not done
consistently.
I'm out of ideas. It doesn't seem to be the
user's account since this
behavior continues when run from an empty home
directory. It doesn't seem
to be the server or the software
installation since it works for other users.
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