On 06/10/2015 10:06 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 06/10/2015 05:25 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
>> I get /home/<username> not found when it's there and setup with correct
>> permissions -- well here I am using it in run level 5 just fine!
>
> Log in as root, and watch /var/log/messages, /var/log/secure, and
> /var/log/audit/audit.log while a "normal" user logs in.
>
> # tail -n0 -f /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/audit/audit.log
>
>> So, my normal user is left logged in at /root.
>
> /root or / ? The two are different, and non-root users should not have
> access to /root
>
>> My next step is to take a look at the gnome startup script vs startx to
>> see if I can figure out the differences if no one has encountered this
>> before.
>
> startx runs the X server, which will in turn run an X session. Gnome
> doesn't have a "startup script" per se, but if it did, it would be an X
> session, something that runs after / under startx. There's nothing
> there to compare.
>
> However, you could capture startx output and execution for debugging:
>
> $ sh -x /usr/bin/startx > startx.trace 2>&1
>
> The file "startx.trace" will have a list of all of the commands run, and
> all of their output (including errors).
>
> /var/log/X* might be interesting as well.
OK, this last bit sounds promising although this works as expected for
root -- starts up gnome flawlessly. My previous setup imported settings
to use a display manager, etc. So, I need to check on this.
Right now, one of my main concerns is that my old /home
partition/direction is supposedly associated WITH current users I setup
and yet...NOT! The system does not recognize this association even
though it asked me about setting it up when I created my first real user
on installation. I had to go in and reset uids but that's no biggie and
this process has worked fine before. I can't help but think this is
related to the startx issue.
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