Error on reboot after setting up VNC

[Wade Smart]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:14 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 02/27/2008 07:57 PM, Wade Smart wrote:
>  > 02272008 2151 GMT-6
>  >
>  > I have just been posting about trying to use VNC on this computer and
>  > now I have a error message on my screen when I reboot:
>  >
>  > "User's $HOME /.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default
>  > session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and
>  > have 644 permissions. Users $HOME directory must be owned by user and
>  > not writable by other users."
>  >
>  > I get this right after I put in the password and hit enter.
>  >
>  >
>  > I just looked and I cant find a hidden dmrc file so I ran a search and I
>  > cant find it through a search either.
>  >
>  > Wade
>  >
>
>  Ah, I remember that one. Happened to me once as well. This is what
>  finally helped me sort it out:
>
>  https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/7296
>
>  http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2B.dmrc+file+is+being+ignored
>
>  BTW: I can't recall what happened or why it occured. But I did manage to
>  get it sorted out by changing the permissions *and* the chown back. What
>  do you see for:
>
>  ls -l .dmrc
>
>  On this machine I get:
>  ls -l .dmrc
>  -rw------- 1 ggx ggx 67 2008-02-27 17:06 .dmrc
>
>
>
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Ok. Slight problem. I ran the above ls -l .dmrc and it looked similar
to yours but we lost power.  When the pc came back up I have a new
message:

"Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged
out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem
or that you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the
failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem."

Well, Im not out of diskspace so it must be something else.

What the heck is failsafe?

Under the message it says View details (~/.xsessions-errorls file) and
it contains this:
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/x11r6/bin/sessreg - a -w
/var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x */var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers* -h "" -l
":0" "wadesmart"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup

gnome-session: 5585: libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create
~/.gnome2 directory: PERMISSION DENIED
Could not create per-user gnome confirguation directory
'/home/wadesmart/.gnome2/': PERMISSION DENIED

What have I done?