gdmgreeter refuses to start in fc7

Tue Jul 3 22:09:16 UTC 2007

Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> Just to explain that all the weirdness actually was originated  by 
> untar, as root, of a tar.bz2 file in /tmp at 23.35 yesterday evening ;-(
> This file contained at the very beginning:
> tar jtvf archive.tar.bz2
> drwxr-xr-x login/users         0 2007-03-19 13:56:20 ./
> ...
>
> So this had the effect of changing permissions of /tmp dir from
> drwxrwxrwt 48 root root 36864 2007-07-03 23:28 /tmp
> to
> drwxr-xr-x 46 1000 users 36864 2007-07-03 23:10 /tmp
>
> (no mapping between uid 1000 and users on my system).
>
> Sorry to all. I think to notify the author of the tar.....
>
> Gianluca
>
>
> On 7/3/07, *Gianluca Cecchi* <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     After I convinced my wife to use Linux and three days of satisfied
>     use of fc7, today it seems  the gdm greeter refuses to start... ;-(
>     I'm not at the PC but I connected remotely.
>     She says that at the screen she gets "the greeter refused to
>     start, retry...". If she presses ok the same happens.
>     Already tried to restart but the same...
>
>     In messages I have:
>     Jul  3 14:40:34 localhost gdmgreeter[3129]: The accessibility
>     registry was not found.
>     Jul  3 14:40:38 localhost gdm[3025]: failsafe dialog failed
>     (inhibitions: 0 0)
>     Jul  3 14:40:38 localhost gdm[3025]: failsafe dialog failed
>     (inhibitions: 0 1)
>     Jul  3 14:40:57 localhost gdmgreeter[3180]: The accessibility
>     registry was not found.
>     Jul  3 14:41:02 localhost gdm[3025]: failsafe dialog failed
>     (inhibitions: 0 0)
>     Jul  3 14:41:02 localhost gdm[3025]: failsafe dialog failed
>     (inhibitions: 0 1)
>
>
>     Strange is that
>      [root at localhost log]# ps -ef|grep -E "X|gdm" | grep -v grep
>     gives:
>     root      1733     1  0 14:39 ?        00:00:00
>     /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /XP -o rw,nls=utf8
>     root      3025     1  0 14:40 ?        00:00:00
>     /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
>     root      3107     1  0 14:40 ?        00:00:00
>     /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
>     root      3185  3025  0 14:40 ?        00:00:00
>     /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
>     root      3187  3185  0 14:40 tty7     00:00:01 /usr/bin/Xorg :0
>     -br -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
>     gdm       3205  3185  0 14:41 ?        00:00:00
>     /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
>     gdm       3208  3025  0 14:41 ?        00:00:00
>     /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
>
>     yesterday I used without problems the system that is an x86_64
>     updated fc7.
>     I updated several not apparently related packages:
>     In yum.log I have:
>     Jul 02 23:31:52 Updated: xvidcore.x86_64 1.1.3-1.lvn7
>     Jul 02 23:31:53 Updated: livna-config-display.noarch 0.0.14a-1.lvn7
>     Jul 02 23:31:53 Updated: k3b-extras-nonfree.x86_64 1.0.2-1.lvn7
>
>     then I manually installed these:
>     Jul 03 00:54:33 Installed: xmlrpc-c.x86_64 1.06.11-2.fc7
>     Jul 03 00:54:36 Installed: cmake.x86_64 2.4.6-3.fc7
>
>     Strange to say, yesterday I was proposed to upgrade gnome-menus to
>     2.19.4 but I deselected it
>     It seems strange as this should be a devel package not in
>     mainstream fc7, or not?
>
>     After the problem today I tried to upgrade it
>     Jul 03 14:37:49 Updated: gnome-menus.x86_64 2.19.4-1.fc7
>
>     But nothing changes...
>     In its changelog I can misteriously see:
>     * Sun Jun 17 2007 Colin Walters < walters at redhat.com
>     <mailto:walters at redhat.com>> - 2.19.4-1
>     - Update to 2.19.4
>
>     * Tue May 29 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com
>     <mailto:mclasen at redhat.com>> - 2.18.2-1
>     - Update to 2.18.2
>     ???
>
>     In /var/log/gdm I have:
>
>     [root at localhost gdm]# ls -lrt
>     total 32
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 793 2007-04-27 22:59 : 20.log.2
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 791 2007-05-16 22:05 :20.log.1
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 888 2007-06-14 18:47 :20.log
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 792 2007-07-03 14:19 :0.log.4
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 792 2007-07-03 14:40 : 0.log.3
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 879 2007-07-03 14:40 :0.log.2
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 792 2007-07-03 14:40 :0.log.1
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 792 2007-07-03 14:40 :0.log
>
>     In :0.log
>     X Window System Version 1.3.0
>     Release Date: 19 April 2007
>     X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
>     Build Operating System: Fedora Core 7 Red Hat, Inc.
>     Current Operating System: Linux localhost.localdomain
>     2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Jun 12 14:56:37 ED
>     T 2007 x86_64
>     Build Date: 11 June 2007
>     Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.3.0.0-9.fc7
>             Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>             to make sure that you have the latest version.
>     Module Loader present
>     Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>             (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>             (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
>     (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Jul  3 14:40:59 2007
>     (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
>     (II) Module already built-in
>
>     In :0.log.2 I have this line more:
>     AUDIT: Tue Jul  3 14:40:51 2007: 3136 Xorg: client 2 rejected from
>     local host (uid 42)
>     Anyone experiencing this?
>     If I set KDE as desktop manager in /etc/sysconfig/desktop file, I
>     get the kdm login screen, but trying to connect I get again the
>     login screen and in messages:
>
>     Jul  3 15:19:45 localhost kdm_greet[5331]: Internal error: memory
>     corruption detected
>     Jul  3 15:19:45 localhost kdm: :0[5355]: Can't execute
>     "/usr/share/config/kdm/Xstartup
>     ": No such file or directory
>     Jul  3 15:19:45 localhost kdm: :0[5448]: Can't execute
>     "/usr/share/config/kdm/Xreset": No such file or directory
>     Jul  3 15:19:59 localhost kdm_greet[5453]: Internal error: memory
>     corruption detected
>     Jul  3 15:19:59 localhost kdm: :0[5466]: Can't execute
>     "/usr/share/config/kdm/Xstartup": No such file or directory
>     Jul  3 15:19:59 localhost kdm: :0[5559]: Can't execute
>     "/usr/share/config/kdm/Xreset": No such file or directory
>
>     Strange that under /usr/share/config/kdm/ there are only
>     Xreset.rpmnew and Xstartup.rpmnew ....
>     I renamed them as Xreset and Xstartup but nothing changes
>     If I set XDM in /etc/sysconfig/desktop I get the xdm login and I'm
>     able to log in with a primitive X session.... ;-)
>
>     Also, doing a startx from init3 I get correctly a root X Windows
>     session....
>     rpm -vV gdm
>     gives no errors....
>     Can anyone point to a solution?
>     Thanks in advance,
>     Gianluca
>
>
Relax. What you think your tar changed is not changed. the permissions 
you show are what I have. There is no way tar will change directories.

Karl