[NCLUG] gdm funkiness

[Mike Loseke]

Thus spake John L. Bass:
> 
> 	 Ok, pain in the tuckus time. RedHat(KRUD) 7.1 machines, 2 seperate
> 	machines setup identically and user is unable to login on the gdm-powered
> 	X console login screen on either. Dumps him back out to the gdm screen.
> 	User's home dir is automounted via NFS/autofs. Was working great, user
> 	logged out to reset something and couldn't log back in.
> 
> That happened to me too a while back, and I ended up clearing all the GUI/X stuff
> in my home directory and repopulated it with an image of files from a virgin new
> user (same name and ID's) created on another machine.  Just had to reset my GUI
> pref's on the first login.
> 
> Was kinda a shotgun fix, but didn't want to take more time to really debug it.
> What I discovered was that there wasn't a good way to log the entire startup
> process to debug it - and after several false starts, just shot it.

 *grumble*...

 Yet another reason no linux distro should be loosed upon a users
desktop yet...

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