[SOLVED] No Login for User other than Root

judepereira · Last edited by judepereira on Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:00 am; edited 1 time in total

Hello,
I have updated my machine, and it works absolutely well. Only that I can't login any user except root. The gnome-session only starts for root and fails for a normal user. Here is the link to when I ran tail -f /var/log/messages >> error.log just before I ran gdmflexiserver from a root login to when I get back to the root Login after trying to login as a user. http://paste2.org/p/295735.
Please help. I cannot login as any user except for root. I'm thinking that this might be a permissions problem...
Any advice/help is accepted even if it does not make any sense. It's worth a try.
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judepereira · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:25 am Post subject:

OK, so I've figured out the problem.... I changed my driver to vesa and it did login....but vesa does not give me good acceleration. So I need to use the openchrome.
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MaximeG · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 722 Location: Belgium

Hi,

Be sure your users have the right to use your hardware acceleration device. I think they must be ine the "video" group

Regards,
Maxime
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judepereira · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:03 pm Post subject:

Thank you for that reply... In /etc/group I don't see any group called video... anyways will add it and try it...
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judepereira · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:14 pm Post subject:

Ok, that group did exist and I had already added myself to it when I installed my gentoo.
Doesn't work...
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MaximeG · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 722 Location: Belgium

And still doesn't work ?

Have you tried to run a simple X server with

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:22 pm Post subject:

@judepereira, can you post this :

judepereira · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:00 am Post subject:

Here's what happened: I love making my Gentoo look like the Mac, so I even had the mac4lin cursors installed, that was the problem. The cursor scheme was causing my X to return a IOError. I knew this when I created a test user and did all the effects for that user, and when I got the cursor installed, it failed to login. Thank you for all your keen replies. :)
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MaximeG · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 722 Location: Belgium

You're welcome

Regards,
Maxime
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d2_racing · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:03 pm Post subject:

Nice to know that, how did you find the problem ?

judepereira · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:24 am Post subject:

Well, I found the problem by a very simple method. Log in as root, create a test user, do all what you did with my normal user, then when I changed the cursor and re-loggedin, it failed! By this it was clear to me that it was the mac cursor that failed to start my session correctly. Then I removed the mouse cursor config file from ${HOME}/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/%gconf.xml, and logged in as my normal user.
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d2_racing · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:44 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the info.