Re: [CentOS] GDM could not write to you authorization file ... Please contact your system adminstrator

2010-10-06 Thread Brent L. Bates
This error sounds familiar. If it is the same problem I've had a couple of times, every time it happens, I forget what it was I did the last time to fix it. :-( After I remember, it seems almost obvious. Assuming you've got the same problem, you need to log into the account remotely,

Re: [CentOS] GDM could not write to you authorization file ... Please contact your system adminstrator

2010-10-06 Thread drew einhorn
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Brent L. Bates blba...@vigyan.com wrote:     This error sounds familiar.  If it is the same problem I've had a couple of times, every time it happens, I forget what it was I did the last time to fix it.  :-(  After I remember, it seems almost obvious. After

Re: [CentOS] GDM could not write to you authorization file ... Please contact your system adminstrator

2010-10-06 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 04:46:44PM -0600, drew einhorn wrote: After some more googling I found the solution and it wasn't obvious: sudo chmod 1777 /tmp This is the default value for /tmp. If your permissions were not set to this then somehow you managed to change them. (cd src; tar cf

[CentOS] GDM could not write to you authorization file ... Please contact your system adminstrator

2010-10-05 Thread drew einhorn
I am the system administrator. I have a system that was built with a default install which resulted in everything in a single file system except for /boot wrote some scripts to split out: /home, /usr, /var, /opt, and /tmp to separate file systems/logical volumes it looks like it ought to work,

Re: [CentOS] GDM could not write to you authorization file ... Please contact your system adminstrator

2010-10-05 Thread cornel panceac
what happens with selinux disabled? -- When one door is closed, another is open. (Robert Nesta Marley) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] GDM could not write to you authorization file ... Please contact your system adminstrator

2010-10-05 Thread drew einhorn
There are no selinux related log messages. Tried disabling it anyway. Didn't help. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:25 PM, cornel panceac cpanc...@gmail.com wrote: what happens with selinux disabled? -- When one door is closed, another is open. (Robert Nesta Marley)