Package: gdm Version: 2.8.0.6-1 Severity: important No matter if the file is present or not in complains about wrong permissions so I wonder where GDM actually looks for the file - maybe in roots home folder because GDM is running as root? Creating the file with the permissions asked still gives the same error message.
The funny thing is that if you look in as root you see no error message. So my best guess is that GDM does not use the entered username when looking for .dmrc but uses root's .dmrc -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-686 Locale: LANG=da_DK, LC_CTYPE=da_DK (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages gdm depends on: ii adduser 3.79 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.59 Debian configuration management sy ii gksu 1.3.6-1 graphical frontend to su ii gnome-session 2.10.0-8 The GNOME 2 Session Manager ii gnome-terminal [x-termin 2.10.0-3 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl ii konsole [x-terminal-emul 4:3.4.2-4 X terminal emulator for KDE ii kwin [x-window-manager] 4:3.4.2-4 the KDE window manager ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libattr1 2.4.25-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libbonobo2-0 2.10.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.10.1-1 The Bonobo UI library ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-10 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcroco3 0.6.0-2 a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C ii libdmx1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 Distributed Multihead X client lib ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.36-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - ii libgconf2-4 2.10.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgcrypt11 1.2.2-1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.5-1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.10.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.10.2-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.10.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.10.1-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libr ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-14 GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libgpg-error0 1.1-4 library for common error values an ii libgsf-1-113 1.13.3-1 Structured File Library - runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.10-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii liborbit2 1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpam-modules 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.79-3 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.2-3 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii librsvg2-2 2.9.5-6 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libselinux1 1.26-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management ii libtasn1-2 0.2.17-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li ii libxau6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Authentication library ii libxdmcp6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Display Manager Control Protocol ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxi6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Input extension li ii libxinerama1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System multi-head display ii libxml2 2.6.22-2 GNOME XML library ii metacity [x-window-manag 1:2.10.3-2 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma ii xbase-clients 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 miscellaneous X clients ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System client libraries m ii xterm [x-terminal-emulat 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X terminal emulator ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-8 compression library - runtime Versions of packages gdm recommends: ii dialog 1.0-20051107-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii gdm-themes 0.4.1 Themes for the GNOME Display Manag ii whiptail 0.51.6-31 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii zenity 2.10.1-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro -- debconf information: gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm * shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]