[lug] KRUD upgrade issue

[Kevin Fenzi]

>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Kinder <ken at kenkinder.com> writes:

Ken> This is kinda funky. I upgraded a RH 6.1 machine to the latest
Ken> KRUD from last week's meeting. Oddly, none of my users can login
Ken> via gdm. It accepted the username/password, acted like it was
Ken> doing something, then went back to gdm. I thought it might have
Ken> been the dotfiles, so I created a new account and tried to login
Ken> graphically with it. It logged in, but no matter what session
Ken> type I select with gdm, it doesn't start anything - no wm, no
Ken> gnome, no kde.

Ken> The messages log is:

Ken> Mar 11 08:44:57 yoshipond gdm[577]: gdm_slave_session_start: root
Ken> on :0 Mar 11 08:44:58 yoshipond PAM_unix[577]: (gdm) session
Ken> closed for user root

Ken> (no matter what user, it's the same)

Ken> startx from console works fine, as does standard console login.

weird. ;( 

Anything of interest in the users ~/.xsession-errors? 
how about in /var/gdm/:0.log?
or 
/var/log/XFree86.0.log

sounds like something is just exiting before it starts your display
manager. ;( 

Ken> -- Ken Kinder www.kenkinder.com

kevin