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Re: Opus

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Mon Feb 9 15:53:58 2009

Cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Jessica B Hamrick <jhamrick@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0902091548050.24732@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:53:02 -0500

Yeah, ok, that.  I was actually able to reproduce this on my machine,  
even after a reboot.

After I reboot, I can log in twice, but then subsequent logins will  
fail.  That's a bug.

-Jon

On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Jessica B Hamrick wrote:

> 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
>>


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