[1096] in athena10
Re: Opus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jessica B Hamrick)
Mon Feb 9 15:49:10 2009
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:48:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Jessica B Hamrick <jhamrick@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
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Gotcha.
File descriptor 9 left open
Can't remove open logical volume "login"
gdm[6762]: ERROR: session_child_run: Execution of PreSession script
returned > 0. Aborting.
aborting...
--Jess
-------------------
Jessica B. Hamrick
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Course 6-2: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
jhamrick@mit.edu
(434) 989-4300
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Yes, you won't be able to read the errors from the dialog box because it
> doesn't have AFS tokens and can't access your homedir at that point. You
> should, however, be able to read ~/.xsession-errors from any other AFS client
> (such as logging into an Athena 9 machine)
>
> -Jon
>
> On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Jessica B Hamrick wrote:
>
>> It seems to have trouble with reporting the errors...
>> "/mit/jhamrick/.xsession-errors could not be opened".
>>
>> Restarting does, in fact, appear to solve the problem (but then it
>> reappears once you log out).
>>
>> --Jess
>>
>> -------------------
>> Jessica B. Hamrick
>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>> Course 6-2: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
>> jhamrick@mit.edu
>> (434) 989-4300
>>
>> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, I was aware of this and didn't deal before leaving the SIPB office
>>> in a hurry. I assume this is the issue jdreed reported earlier with "Log
>>> Out" leaving the machine broken (ATN-27, for those of you with Jira
>>> access). Rebooting should fix it, but I'd like to see .xsession-errors to
>>> make sure it's the same thing.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Geoffrey Thomas
>>> geofft@mit.edu
>>>
>>> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Jessica B Hamrick wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Logging into opus does not appear to work - it throws the standard
>>>> xsession error ("your session lasted less than 10 seconds..."). Logging
>>>> in as root also does not seem to work... perhaps I tried using the wrong
>>>> password? fawkes tried as well, so I'm pretty sure I wasn't just failing
>>>> at typing.
>>>> --Jess
>>>> -------------------
>>>> Jessica B. Hamrick
>>>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>>>> Course 6-2: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
>>>> jhamrick@mit.edu
>>>> (434) 989-4300
>>>
>
