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log/messages
file. Locate the time stamps that correspond to the login at-
tempts and determine if PAM has produced any error messages.
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Try to log in from a console (using Ctrl + Alt + F1 ). If this is successful, the blame
cannot be put on PAM or the directory server on which the user's home is hosted,
because it is possible to authenticate this user on this machine. Try to locate any
problems with the X Window System or the desktop (GNOME or KDE). For
more information, refer to
Section 51.4.3, “Login Successful but GNOME
Desktop Fails ” (page 924) and Section 51.4.4, “Login Successful but KDE
Desktop Fails” (page 925).
6 If the user's home directory has been used with another Linux distribution, remove
the
Xauthority
file in the user's home. Use a console login via Ctrl + Alt +
F1 and run
rm .Xauthority
as this user. This should eliminate X authentica-
tion problems for this user. Try a graphical login again.
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If graphical login still fails, do a console login with Ctrl + Alt + F1 . Try to start
an X session on another display—the first one (
:0
) is already in use:
startx -- :1
This should bring up a graphical screen and your desktop. If it does not, check
the log files of the X Window System (
/var/log/Xorg. displaynumber
.log
) or the log file for your desktop applications (
.xsession-errors
in
the user's home directory) for any irregularities.
8 If the desktop could not start because of corrupt configuration files, proceed with
Section 51.4.3, “Login Successful but GNOME Desktop Fails ” (page 924) or
Section 51.4.4, “Login Successful but KDE Desktop Fails” (page 925).
51.4.3 Login Successful but GNOME Desktop
Fails
If this is true for a particular user, it is likely that the user's GNOME configuration files
have become corrupted. Some symptoms might include the keyboard failing to work,
the screen geometry becoming distorted, or even the screen coming up as a bare gray
field. The important distinction is that if another user logs in, the machine works nor-
mally. If this is the case, it is likely that the problem can be fixed relatively quickly by
simply moving the user's GNOME configuration directory to a new location, which
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