greeter/login problem

[mike james]

Karl Goetz wrote:
> mike james wrote:
>   
>> Karl Goetz wrote:
>>     
>>> mike james wrote:
>>>  
>>> did you get help for this question?
>>> kk
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> No, I asked around on ubuntuforums as well, and found a solution that
>> others are using, but it didnt work for me. There were several others
>> with the same problem though. I suspect that it happened to a few people
>> who installed beryl on Edgy, then ran the Fiesty upgrade process.
>>
>> I can login to my box normally, but I removed the gdm package and
>> installed the kdm package. Its not my preffered solution but it works
>> and Ive spent ages on it now so I settled for second best.
>>
>> Thanks for asking though.
>>
>> mike
>>     
>
> I suspect removing the metacity files would have worked, if you hadnt
> then launched x+gnome as root. gnome (gtk in general) *hates* being run
> as root.
> check with
> `ls -lAh ~/` and see if you get anything like this:
>
> drwx------  45 root root 4.0K 2007-05-29 22:19 .gnome2
> drwx------   2 root root 4.0K 2007-02-15 19:39 .gnome2_private
>
> perhaps paste it here if you want.
>
> if you do, you might have to run a command like this:
> sudo chown -R yourname.yourname ~/.???*
>
> where yourname is the login for your account.
>
> btw. perhaps you could reply this back to the list?
> karl.
>
>   
Hi Karl

I deleted the metacity sessions files again and removed kdm, then tried
to re-install gdm. I got this error message.

grep: /etc/X11/Default-display-manager: No such file or directory
*Reloading GNOME Display Manager configuration
*Changes will take effect when all current X sessions have ended.
invoke-rc.d: initscript gdm, action "reload" failed

so I restarted the PC and got the same result. Just a black screen with
a swirly waiting cursor.

I then booted into recover mode and started x as root (i had no choice),
and ran "ls -lAh ~\ | more" and this is the result.

drwxr-xr-x  6 mikej mikej 4.0K 2007-03-15 11:50 .gnome
drwx------ 14 mikej mikej 4.0K 2007-06-04 16:53 .gnome2
drwx------  3 mikej mikej 4.0K 2007-02-06 03:28 .gnome2_private

cheers,
mike