[7698] in testers
My Athena session will not run.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Tue Sep 16 18:02:41 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:01:54 -0400
To: testers@mit.edu, athena10@mit.edu
In another thread we're working on debugging the account deletion
procedure.
Meanwhile I'm trying to log in on the athena10 system.
I did userdel wdc and that enabled the Athena login screen to try and
pull from
my Athena account.
When I log in, it gives me the error that my session ran for less
than 10 seconds.
When I click on show details it says, "/mit/wdc/.xsession-errors
could not be opened."
From another system, my .xsession-errors file does exist. It says:
hanta-yo:~ wdc$ cat /mit/wdc/.xsession-errors
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US.
Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/
xinit/xinput.d/default.
set: Variable name must begin with a letter.
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When I do a GNOME failsafe login I get a FLURRY of alerts:
An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information
for evolution-alarm-notify. Some of your configuration settings may
not work properly.
Details: Failed to contact configuration server <explanation>
Details -1 IOR file /tmp/gconfd-wdc/lock/ior couldn ot be opened
successfully. no gconfd located: permission denied.
(Details repeat several times.)
Similar alert for Nautilus, gnome-panel
GConf Error (repeat of evolution-alarm-notify error).
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I thought that might be due to our not having done the gconf work.
After all I am logged in elsewhere. So I logged out of the other
Athena system, but that made no difference.
The fail safe Gnome session gives me no panel. I had to log out by
creating a xterm launcher, and then su to root, and then killing X.
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A failsafe terminal session will let me in at all, and I can examine
the contents of my AFS home directory, and run commands.
Issuing the "logout" command complains that the login shell is not my
login shell.
(This is a simple bug easily fixed, I believe.) I AM able to logout
by issuing the "exit" command.
-Bill
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