[CentOS] Re:Re:Can't get past the splash screen

Eon Strife eon_strife at yahoo.com
Wed May 21 05:58:27 UTC 2008


Hi,
Thanks, it's Gnome, and I'm stuck when I login as root.
By using Putty, I managed to create a new user, and then I tried to login to desktop(using nomachine) as that user, and yes, it works. The problem now is that I stuck when I login as the root.

Then, I compared the runlog (the one I wrote in that previous email), between the root's and the new user's and, they're the same. 

Then, I compared the sshlog, and I found discrepancies. In the sshlog of the root, there are some additional lines saying unable to open a file and unable to start the sesion:
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NX> 285 Identified internal connection
NX> 285 Using default mode encrypted
NX> 285 Identified options: nx/nx,options=/cygdrive/C/Users/EONSTR~1/NX73F8~1/S-8728~1.ORG/options:1000
NX> 280 Proxy opened with local: 7 remote: 8
NX> 285 Switching descriptors: 4 and: 5 to: 7

NX> 287 Redirected I/O to channel descriptors
NX> 280 Proxy in: 4 out: 5 transport in: 8 out: 8

NX> 596 Session startup failed.                                            <- The additional line in the sshlog of the root
NX> 1004 Error: NX Agent exited with exit status 1.
Can't open /var/lib/nxserver/db/running/sessionId{0C2C8B077AB56ED37F7A5A72FE8FA7BF}: No such file or directory.
mv: cannot stat `/var/lib/nxserver/db/running/sessionId{0C2C8B077AB56ED37F7A5A72FE8FA7BF}': No such file or directory
NX> 1006 Session status: closed
Exited with status 0. User pressed Ok.
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I checked the permission of that var/lib/nxserver/ (and folders (including /db/running/ ) and files inside it), the permission is 0700 (read,write,execute enabled for the owner), with the group is root and owner is the nx. And yes, also using the root I can view the content of the var/lib/nxserver. If I login using that new user, I can't view the content.

Oh,yeah, pressing start and leaving for few hours don't solve the problem.

Checking the .bash_history file, these are the commands I issued around the time when I messed up :

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useradd aaa
useradd --help
useradd abc
passwd aaa
useradd --help
useradd -d /home/aaaa/ -p aaaaaa aaa
which useradd
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
userdel --help
userdel aaa
passwd aaa
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
cd /home/
ls
rmdir --help
cd aaa
ls
del --help
delfile --help
cd \.
cd /.
cd /home/
rm -r /home/aaa/
ls
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs reload
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start
ls
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop
exit
ypcat
ypcat group
group
grouplist
groupls
groups
users
uname
uname -s -n -m -r
id
whoami
w root
w
ps
ps
ps -f
ps -a
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Thanks.


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I am not in front of a machine with the nxclient on it, I will be in the 
morning and can see what some of the logs look like there; however, the 
ling concerning automatic reconnect to true makes me think the device is 
attempting to start up a session that doesn't exist. I can't prove that, 
but I will have more information tomorrow.

Concerning your screen shot, I've only ever been stuck at that screen 
once and simply hitting enter at the keyboard made it vanish. The splash 
screen should time out anyhow once the start up stuff times out if 
gnome/kde/xfce's initialization routine takes too long.

What desktop (window manager?) are you using? Is it Gnome, KDE or 
something else? I've not seen selinux create an issue, but for posterity 
is it running? Does it log anything on the system you're attempting to 
connect with? Oh, what about permissions for the user? Does the user 
have the ability to write to his/her home directory properly? You could 
be getting stuck on the splash screen because the user can't write any 
data for the initialization.

Sincerely,

Alex White
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