Unable to login in X windows in FC4

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Nov 7 02:08:49 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 13:13 +0530, D G wrote:

> Recently I have started having this problem that no user other than
> root can login through X-windows on gnome / kde.

I had that problem after cloning a drive.  I forgot to set the sticky
bit on the /tmp directory permissions.

e.g. drwxrwxrwt   10 root root  4096 Nov  7 11:09 tmp

> I am attaching an output of my /var/log/messages... Initially i tried
> to log on as a normal user and then as root. The latter succeeded.
> goks is the name of my machine as well as the name of the user that
> I'm trying to log in with.
> 
> Nov  6 13:03:10 goks kde(pam_unix)[3261]: session opened for user goks
> by (uid=0)
> Nov  6 13:03:10 goks -:0[3261]: Warning!  Could not get current
> context for /dev/:0, not relabeling.

"Relabelling" errors sound like SELinux issues.

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