I just got Gentoo back on my box. ( after reiser4 tearing it to tiny bits ) So its a fresh install. But for some reason unknown to myself GDM/KDM will not allow non-root users to login, although xdm and gdmflexiserver will. They both give pretty much the same error. GDM will give a diolog to users which gives an error about not being able to open display :0.0 ... :( I've tried all sorts of stuff but I can't figure this one out. :\ =Begin File " /var/log/gdm/:0.log " AUDIT: Sat Mar 26 18:59:32 2005: 15035 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Sat Mar 26 18:59:32 2005: 15035 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 (WW) I810(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xf0000000,0x8000000) Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/local/, removing from list! =End File= =Begin File " /var/log/kdm.log "= AUDIT: Fri Mar 25 16:46:13 2005: 12902 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Fri Mar 25 16:46:13 2005: 12902 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Fri Mar 25 16:46:13 2005: 12902 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Fri Mar 25 16:46:13 2005: 12902 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Fri Mar 25 16:46:13 2005: 12902 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Fri Mar 25 16:46:14 2005: 12902 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Fri Mar 25 16:46:14 2005: 12902 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Fri Mar 25 16:46:14 2005: 12902 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Fri Mar 25 16:46:14 2005: 12902 X: client 2 rejected from local host =End File= Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gnome-2.10 2. change default display manager to gdm 3. try to login as a non-root user Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10 Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.20GHz Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Mar 25 2005, 07:27:22)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.14 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/var/gpackages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluecurve calendar cdr cdrom cdrw crypt cups curl dvd emacs emboss encode esd fam firefox flac font-server foomatic foomaticdb fortran ftp gaim gdbm gif gnome gnome2 gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 irssi jack java jikes jpeg k3b kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozcalendar mozilla mozilla-firefox mozilla-thunderbird mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nntp ntpl offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png python qemu-fast qt qt2 quicktime readline redhat reiser4 sdl softmmu spell ssl svga tcpd thunderbird tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vim vsftpd xine xine-lib xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS ( yes I do realize that a lot of those aren't USE flags... I'm just to lazy to fix it )
probably X problem, permissions maybe. let bugwranglers handle assigning bugs.
You're starting GDM the normal way, ie, using xdm on startup with gdm in rc.conf?
Yes, its when I started it the normal way that it didn't work. I would change the entry in rc.conf to DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" ( or whatever it is ) GDM would start normally and root could log in. But not normal usesr. I think though that it managed to fix itself somehow. :-s because it works fine now. I'll close my bug. But i'll reopen it if it starts acting up again. Thanks.
As a future note, I've found issues with Gnome/KDE and user locks within /tmp...sometimes clearing out /tmp resolves login issues like this.
