Error on reboot after setting up VNC
Wade Smart
wadesmart at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 15:37:16 UTC 2008
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
I just figured out where the failsafe session is and when I tried to
log in I have the same errors as above.
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