On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Daniel Sutil <daniel.su...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Un saludo, > > Daniel Sutil > > > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Daniel Sutil <daniel.su...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Smokejohn <smokej...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Daniel Sutil <daniel.su...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Un saludo, >>>> >>>> Daniel Sutil >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Smokejohn <smokej...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Daniel Sutil >>>>> <daniel.su...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Un saludo, >>>>>> >>>>>> Daniel Sutil >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Smokejohn <smokej...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Daniel Sutil <daniel.su...@gmail.com >>>>>>> > wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Smokejohn <smokej...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Klaus Becker <colon...@free.fr>wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Le Mardi 06 Avril 2010 22:41:44, Daniel Sutil a écrit : >>>>>>>>>> > Finally I applied the following workaround: I remove kdm and >>>>>>>>>> installed gdm. >>>>>>>>>> > After that, I have no problem to login. I haven't investigated >>>>>>>>>> any further >>>>>>>>>> > because I really don't know from where the problem comes, but >>>>>>>>>> now, maybe we >>>>>>>>>> > have to undo the steps applied with the skype's solution to >>>>>>>>>> solve our >>>>>>>>>> > problem. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I had the same problem with kdm, but no problem with gdm. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> cheers >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Klaus >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Hi. Installing gdm did not do the trick :( >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> You must uninstall the kdm service first and select in the session >>>>>>>> selector of gdm "kde". If you don't select the session type, get some >>>>>>>> errors. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I uninstalled kdm and selected kde as a session but I got the same >>>>>>> message telling me that my session lasted lower than 10s and bla bla.. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> When doing startx as a normal user from console I get some errors >>>>>>>>> like "xkb could not initialize" and "Xinit: no such file or >>>>>>>>> directory" and >>>>>>>>> "Xinit: Could not connect to xserver".... >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Have you stopped the kdm first? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yes I did stop kdm when I tried that. The strange thing is that if I >>>>>>> login as root from console and do a startx then a kde session starts >>>>>>> normally. If I do that as a normal user I get the errors.. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Can you paste the errors? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> When trying to login with gdm it has an option to view the >>>>> .xsession-errors file. The error is mkdtmp: private folder browsing >>>>> (something like that :P): Permission denied. >>>>> >>>>> When I was using kdm and did a cat on the same file the second line >>>>> just showed: Permission denied. >>>>> >>>>> I checked the .Xauthority file and did chown to my user. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I remember that first time I try to execute the startx with my user I >>>> get some errors but not with root. The problem was that the /tmp directory >>>> doesn't have permissions to write with my user. >>>> >>>> The correct permissions are: >>>> >>>> >>>> cd /tmp >>>> >>>> ls -ld >>>> >>>> drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 12288 2010-04-07 13:12 . >>>> >>>> Could you check it? >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Some friend told me to purge kde and reinstall it. I don't think >>>>>>>>> this will help. Do you think I should give it a try? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I tried that with no success :-( >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> If that didn't help you I will not bother.. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> J >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> Well yesterday before I sent the list an email I used google to find >>> anything that would help. I found someone reporting that the permissions in >>> /tmp and /var/tmp could be the problem. I checked both. Everything seemed >>> fine :S I will check again, just in case..... >>> >> >> Check the sticky bit.. is the important think. >> >> I think is: >> >> chmod 01777 /tmp >> chmod 01777 /var/tmp >> > > I have just remember that I deleted all contents of /tmp because some files > has the wrong permissions.... > > I have slow remembering memory :-D > > Well I applied the permissions you told me in the /tmp, /var/tmp folders AND their contents and the problem is gone :D.... Many many many thanks :D
