[7071] in testers
Re: login problem on cutter-john
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jun 2 16:45:12 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Erica H Peterson <astronut@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58L.0506012149390.27712@amalgam.mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 16:44:35 -0400
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On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 21:53 -0400, Erica H Peterson wrote:
> I had a strange login problem on cutter-john (9.4.6 athena linux) - I was
> able to log in, but once the messages on the console reached "Initializing
> settings" nothing else happened - no terminal, no panel. I tried
> restarting X, and also rebooting, and had the same problem. Other
> messages did pop up in the console (Sam logged in under me to try to
> figure out what was going on, and I got a root login alert message). I
> was finally able to log in with no problems using my test account, which
> has virtually no customizations. What's puzzling is that I've been able
> to log in to cheshire-cat (also 9.4.6 athena linux) using my customizations,
> with no problems at all.
Did Sam find anything out?
This sounds like it might be [6965], but it's hard to tell. I've been
unable to reproduce that problem since.
