on Wednesday 03/14/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:09:23 -0400, John covici wrote:
>
> > Hi. If I try to log in using gdm as a non-root user, it logs me in,
> > but does not even run gnome-session. If I run that by hand, it runs
> > some things, but if I want to change some settings I am informed that
> > the gnome-settings-daemon cannot start a new dbus session. Both dbus
> > and hald are started and working if I log in as root.
>
> Check the permissions of the various GNOME files and directories in the
> user's home directory. I've seen something like this when the user was
> unable to write to the necessary files.
I checked the .gconf and .gnome2 and even the .gnome2_private, but it
looks OK to me. I even put a session file in the users .gnome2
directory changing the current directory to his home directory, but it
will not run. Very strange.
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John Covici
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