On Thursday 25 March 2004 06:23, Thomas H. George wrote: > Suddenly I can no longer login to gdm. When I enter my user name the > screen goes blank then returns to the login screen. I created an new > user and when I tried to log in as this user the screen went blank after > I entered the new user's password. I still can login at any of the > terminal screens with either my user name and password or the new user's > name and password. > > At one point there was a message /dev/null permission denied. The > permissions were 666 which seemed like it should be ok to read and write > to /dev/null but I changed them to 777 to be sure. Then I no longer got > the message but the logins failed as above. > > Anyone know what I have messed up? > > Tom
I had a problem like this that turned out to be related to my system clock. I was trying to log in with a home directory that was an NFS mount, and the NFS server clock was different (by a few hours - my time zone was incorrect). Once I fixed my clock, it worked. If that long shot doesn't work, you might search your home directory and /var and /tmp for lock files, especially if your last "logout" was a crash. Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
