grep face /home/<username> -r
:)
grep face /home/<username> -r
:)
Please. I'm not "send me the directions how to set up ssl with my web server".
I've tried, as last resorts, find /var -type f -exec grep -il <username>/.face {} ; and in addition to /var, I tried /etc and /tmp, and the *only* thing grep gave me were the logfiles that had the entries.
Now, does anyone have any other suggestions?
mark "there's reasons I'm not hot on gnome"
-- David Fix Senior Systems Administrator Mr. X Inc.
----- Original Message ----- From: "m roth" m.roth@5-cent.us To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:01:27 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?
Greetings,
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM, mark m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
itxakaserrano@gmail.com wrote:
Enviado desde mi iPhone El 18/09/2009, a las 04:39, mark m.roth@5-cent.us escribió:
R P Herrold wrote:
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, mark wrote:
> I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server > continues to send error messages to /var/log/messages that > gdm-simple-greeter can't find some file in a user's (another > admin, actually) home directory. Any ideas where it's > getting it from?
There are couple of directories starting with '.' (i.e. hidden ones) pertaining to gnome .gconf, .gdm maybe you can find the answers there.
/me putting up the sheild for hiding from "insufficient accuracy" missiles
Yeah, I always alias ll="ls -laF", so they're never hidden from me. <g>
Anyway, the situation is that users logging onto this system, as most of our systems, get their home directory automounted. However, this guy hasn't been on this system most of the time I've tried to find this error.
Based on that, it's got to be somewhere in a *system* file, not in a home directory, yet it complains: gdm-simple-greeter[2361]: GLib-GIO-WARNING: Missing callback called fullpath = /home/<username>/.face#012
Now, I found /var/lib/gdm, and have looked under .config, .gconf, and .gconfd, and not found it. I have also killed the simple greeter, and it respawned, and started griping again.
So, where is it storing this, and, more important, *WHY* is it caching this? Ideally, I'd like to not only clear whatever's causing it now, but also change the relevant system configuration file so that it doesn't happen again.
mark
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Hi,
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:42, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
grep face /home/<username> -r
Please. I'm not "send me the directions how to set up ssl with my web server".
I've tried, as last resorts, find /var -type f -exec grep -il <username>/.face {} ; and in addition to /var, I tried /etc and /tmp, and the *only* thing grep gave me were the logfiles that had the entries.
But you clearly have ADD or something...
The file is probably referred in one of the .gnome*/.gconf* files inside the home directory. Just because the home is not mounted at the time of login it doesn't mean that the gdm-greeter won't mount it, then read its config files from there, then try to look for the missing file.
It's probably related to a saved gnome session, so you could just log in as that user and run the "gnome-session-save" command to see if the issue will happen again on the next login.
HTH, Filipe
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:42, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
grep face /home/<username> -r
Please. I'm not "send me the directions how to set up ssl with my web server".
I've tried, as last resorts, find /var -type f -exec grep -il <username>/.face {} ; and in addition to /var, I tried /etc and /tmp, and the *only* thing grep gave me were the logfiles that had the entries.
But you clearly have ADD or something...
Why is that?
The file is probably referred in one of the .gnome*/.gconf* files inside the home directory. Just because the home is not mounted at the time of login it doesn't mean that the gdm-greeter won't mount it, then read its config files from there, then try to look for the missing file.
<snip> Oh, so the answer to my question is that gnome's simple greeter is reading *his* configuration files - is this as he's logging on? - from his home directory.
However, I don't see the message from any other server (and we have a good number), so I don't understand why it wouldn't show up from another 10-30 machines.
But obviously I'm missing something that you're overlooking in your over-familiarity with gnome and gnome-simple-greeter.
mark
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:54, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
grep face /home/<username> -r
However, I don't see the message from any other server (and we have a good number), so I don't understand why it wouldn't show up from another 10-30 machines.
Well, did you at least *look* in his home directory? If you look and it's not there, it's probably something else, but I don't think you should discard that before actually looking at it.
HTH, Filipe
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:54, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
grep face /home/<username> -r
However, I don't see the message from any other server (and we have a good number), so I don't understand why it wouldn't show up from another 10-30 machines.
Well, did you at least *look* in his home directory? If you look and it's not there, it's probably something else, but I don't think you should discard that before actually looking at it.
I really don't see that I need to: his home directory's on another system, and I don't see it happening from logs from any other system running gnome when he logs on, and he tells me he doesn't know anything about it, either, and since he's been a sysadmin here for years, and knows the systems, I believe him.
It has to be stored somewhere on this one server. Can you suggest any reason that you think it's not?
*IF* I understand this correctly, the "simple greeter" shows up when you wake up the screensaver, and displays the names of those recently logged in, and it *seems* as though it can also display pictures. Given the location and filename, I was assuming that it gets them that way. which would imply that it might work *if* the home directory was always mounted, not automounted on logon.
With those assumptions, my guess was that there's a configuration that tells it to look in a user's home directory for such a file.
mark
grep face /home/<username> -r
:)
Oh, yes, the point I realized I should mention as I hit <send>: I thought I mentioned that when I look at the log, that the user is NOT LOGGED ON, and that the home directories were automounted at login.
mark "gnome, gnome and deranged"
-- David Fix Senior Systems Administrator Mr. X Inc.
----- Original Message ----- From: "m roth" m.roth@5-cent.us To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:01:27 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?
Greetings,
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM, mark m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
itxakaserrano@gmail.com wrote:
Enviado desde mi iPhone El 18/09/2009, a las 04:39, mark m.roth@5-cent.us escribió:
R P Herrold wrote:
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, mark wrote:
> I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server > continues to send error messages to /var/log/messages that > gdm-simple-greeter can't find some file in a user's (another > admin, actually) home directory. Any ideas where it's > getting it from?
There are couple of directories starting with '.' (i.e. hidden ones) pertaining to gnome .gconf, .gdm maybe you can find the answers there.
/me putting up the sheild for hiding from "insufficient accuracy" missiles
Yeah, I always alias ll="ls -laF", so they're never hidden from me. <g>
Anyway, the situation is that users logging onto this system, as most of our systems, get their home directory automounted. However, this guy hasn't been on this system most of the time I've tried to find this error.
Based on that, it's got to be somewhere in a *system* file, not in a home directory, yet it complains: gdm-simple-greeter[2361]: GLib-GIO-WARNING: Missing callback called fullpath = /home/<username>/.face#012
Now, I found /var/lib/gdm, and have looked under .config, .gconf, and .gconfd, and not found it. I have also killed the simple greeter, and it respawned, and started griping again.
So, where is it storing this, and, more important, *WHY* is it caching this? Ideally, I'd like to not only clear whatever's causing it now, but also change the relevant system configuration file so that it doesn't happen again.
mark
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