[Bug 393590] New: gdm complains about $HOME/. dmrc and GNOME settings daemon won't start
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590 Summary: gdm complains about $HOME/.dmrc and GNOME settings daemon won't start Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Beta 3 Platform: x86 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: GNOME AssignedTo: bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: chobbs@siloamsprings.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Other On startup, GDM gives the following message: -- BEGIN SNIP -- 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. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users. -- END SNIP -- After that message is displayed, GNOME does it's usual start up proceedures and then eventually reports the following message: -- BEGIN SNIP -- There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The last error message was: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. -- END SNIP -- To the best of my knowledge, I haven't done anything to my .dmrc file. It does, however, have the incorrect permissions. Setting the proper permissions seems to have fixed the first error, the second error is still hit and miss. This is on a clean installation. See http://altbit.org/pseudorandom/images/gdm_bug/ for screenshots of the original errors. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590 User chobbs@siloamsprings.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590#c1 Christopher Hobbs <chobbs@siloamsprings.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |chobbs@siloamsprings.com --- Comment #1 from Christopher Hobbs <chobbs@siloamsprings.com> 2008-05-22 08:19:05 MST --- Scratch that... Fixing the permissions doesn't do anything. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590 JP Rosevear <jpr@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com |hpj@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590 User hpj@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590#c2 Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |chobbs@siloamsprings.com --- Comment #2 from Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@novell.com> 2008-05-26 14:41:41 MDT --- Can you provide the output of the following shell commands, please: stat $HOME stat $HOME/.dmrc stat $HOME/.gconf Thank you. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590 User hpj@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590#c3 --- Comment #3 from Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@novell.com> 2008-05-26 14:44:02 MDT --- Oh, and the following command too: id -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590 User chobbs@siloamsprings.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590#c4 Christopher Hobbs <chobbs@siloamsprings.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|chobbs@siloamsprings.com | --- Comment #4 from Christopher Hobbs <chobbs@siloamsprings.com> 2008-05-27 07:43:32 MDT --- chobbs@SS034:~> stat $HOME File: `/home/chobbs' Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 1351822 Links: 40 Access: (0777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 1000/ chobbs) Gid: ( 100/ users) Access: 2008-05-27 08:17:35.000000000 -0500 Modify: 2008-05-27 08:31:51.000000000 -0500 Change: 2008-05-27 08:31:51.000000000 -0500 chobbs@SS034:~> stat $HOME/.dmrc File: `/home/chobbs/.dmrc' Size: 26 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 1352203 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1000/ chobbs) Gid: ( 100/ users) Access: 2008-05-22 21:34:51.000000000 -0500 Modify: 2008-05-20 08:02:27.000000000 -0500 Change: 2008-05-22 09:06:53.000000000 -0500 chobbs@SS034:~> stat $HOME/.gconf File: `/home/chobbs/.gconf' Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 1351837 Links: 5 Access: (0700/drwx------) Uid: ( 1000/ chobbs) Gid: ( 100/ users) Access: 2008-05-27 08:09:57.000000000 -0500 Modify: 2008-05-27 08:10:16.000000000 -0500 Change: 2008-05-27 08:10:16.000000000 -0500 chobbs@SS034:~> id uid=1000(chobbs) gid=100(users) groups=16(dialout),33(video),100(users) Thanks! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590 User hpj@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590#c5 --- Comment #5 from Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@novell.com> 2008-05-27 15:27:02 MDT --- It looks like your home directory is world writable. Also, the .dmrc file's permissions may be too permissive. GDM tends to get upset about that. Could you do: chmod 0700 $HOME chmod 0600 $HOME/.dmrc and see if that solves the problem? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590 Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590 User chobbs@siloamsprings.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590#c6 --- Comment #6 from Christopher Hobbs <chobbs@siloamsprings.com> 2008-05-27 15:50:04 MDT --- That fixed it. Should the error message be altered a bit, then (seeing as how the 644 didn't work)? Thanks for the help. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590 User hpj@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393590#c7 Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #7 from Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@novell.com> 2008-08-08 21:18:55 MDT --- Yeah, probably - though I don't think it's worth shipping an update for, and GDM in Factory behaves differently. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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