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XDM login



There is lots of disk space. One way, I solved this problem was, by deleting all .X* (and not .x*)
files from the users directories. This way the X Windows will use the system wide .X* files.
Obviously, the users .Xresources .Xdefault etc. etc. files are corrupted.

Everything seems to be fine now. You can try the same trick and see what happens.

Subba Rao
subb3 at ibm.net
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On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 21:41:44 +0000 (GMT), Chuck Young wrote:

>I don't know if you got any replies or if this is still a problem or what,
>but I had the same thing when disk space was running short a while back.
>
>It seems root is allowed to log in when space is short, but mortal users
>are denied this luxury.  Do you have plenty of disk space?
>
>Chuck Young
>GTE Internetworking
>
>On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Subba Rao wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 16:28:48 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Subba Rao <subb3 at ibm.net>
>> To: Boston Linux Users Group <discuss at Blu.Org>
>> Subject: XDM login
>> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> I have multiple user accounts on my machine. All "users" accounts are set, to be renewed by the root, 
every
>> 2 or 3 months.
>> 
>> I invoke XDM at the end of startup scripts. I could login as any user and everything was fine.
>> 
>> For some reason, now I cannot login to any "users" accounts via XDM. I can login as root only.
>> >From other machines, I can telnet and ftp to the "users", which suggests that the "users" accounts are 
fine.
>> But, why are my "users" accounts gettting locked via XDM?
>> 
>> The authentication, is successful, but the screen remains between, end of XDM signon screen and start of
>> window manager screen.
>> 
>> Any ideas, how to fix this problem is appreciated.
>> 
>> Thank you in advance.
>> 
>> Subba Rao
>> subb3 at ibm.net
>> ==============================================================
>> Disclaimer - I question and speak for myself.
>> 
>> http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
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