[CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Fri Sep 18 15:44:15 UTC 2009


> 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"
>
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> David Fix
> Senior Systems Administrator
> Mr. X Inc.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "m roth" <m.roth at 5-cent.us>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at 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 at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>>> itxakaserrano at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Enviado desde mi iPhone
>>>> El 18/09/2009, a las 04:39, mark <m.roth at 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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