Hi All... I'm running OpenSuse on Virtual PC 2007 for Windows and Parallels Workstation for Mac OS. On both systems, whenever I make a change to the /etc/profile file, I can no longer long in. I receive an error stating that I cannot log in due to a DCOP server error. I am told to ensure that a DCOP server is running. I have reinstalled (from scratch) OpenSuse 10 times between the two virtual machine environments and the same thing happens each time. Does anyone have any ideas on what causes this? Is there some specific way in which I should modify the /etc/profile file? I've tried using vi and even OpenOffice. Each time I modify the file, I am sudo'ed or logged in directly as root. Thanks in advance.
On 12/20/06, Marc Hoffman
Hi All...
I'm running OpenSuse on Virtual PC 2007 for Windows and Parallels Workstation for Mac OS. On both systems, whenever I make a change to the /etc/profile file, I can no longer long in. I receive an error stating that I cannot log in due to a DCOP server error. I am told to ensure that a DCOP server is running.
I have reinstalled (from scratch) OpenSuse 10 times between the two virtual machine environments and the same thing happens each time. Does anyone have any ideas on what causes this? Is there some specific way in which I should modify the /etc/profile file? I've tried using vi and even OpenOffice. Each time I modify the file, I am sudo'ed or logged in directly as root.
Thanks in advance.
What kind of changes are you making? Do you change the permissions ore location of the file are you logging out and logging in as the same user and that is when it happens? Have you tried keeping a copy of the orginal .profile file and replacing it and seeing whether that fixes the problem?? George
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On Wednesday 20 December 2006 23:33, Marc Hoffman wrote:
Hi All...
I'm running OpenSuse on Virtual PC 2007 for Windows and Parallels Workstation for Mac OS. On both systems, whenever I make a change to the /etc/profile file, I can no longer long in. I receive an error stating that I cannot log in due to a DCOP server error. I am told to ensure that a DCOP server is running.
I have reinstalled (from scratch) OpenSuse 10 times between the two virtual machine environments and the same thing happens each time. Does anyone have any ideas on what causes this? Is there some specific way in which I should modify the /etc/profile file? I've tried using vi and even OpenOffice. Each time I modify the file, I am sudo'ed or logged in directly as root.
Hello Marc, Did you read the first lines of /etc/profile? In short: better use /etc/profile.local instead of /etc/profile. But modifying /etc/profile in itself probably is not the cause. Are you sure the changes you made do not contain syntax errors? Any errors reported in /home/<username>/.xsession-errors, and/or /var/log/Xorg.*.log? Cheers, Leen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi Leen... Thanks for the quick answer. Here's were I'm at as of now:
Did you read the first lines of /etc/profile? In short: better use /etc/profile.local instead of /etc/profile. But modifying /etc/profile in itself probably is not the cause.
I'm trying to change the UMASK to "0000". I'm doing this so that when this client accesses an NFS share, it keeps chmod 777 permissions on all files that it makes. I'm controlling access to NFS export via IP address, and I want all clients authorized to see the NFS export to be able to exchange data freely. That being said, will doing the /etc/ profile.local do the same thing?
Are you sure the changes you made do not contain syntax errors?
All I changed in the profile file was the entry for umask, and I changed it to 0000.
Any errors reported in /home/<username>/.xsession-errors, and/or /var/log/Xorg.*.log?
I'll have to go back and look. I archived my "bad" Linux virtual hard drives, and I can restore them to take a look. On a side note, I also noticed that these problems began to show up when I did the following while logged in as non-root: sudo -s ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 I was simply trying to force the virtual machine into reacquiring a new IP address. I did have to be logged in with root-level access in both scenarios. Is that perhaps the problem? Thanks in advance, once again! On Dec 20, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 23:33, Marc Hoffman wrote:
Hello Marc,
Did you read the first lines of /etc/profile? In short: better use /etc/profile.local instead of /etc/profile. But modifying /etc/profile in itself probably is not the cause.
Are you sure the changes you made do not contain syntax errors?
Any errors reported in /home/<username>/.xsession-errors, and/or /var/log/Xorg.*.log?
Cheers,
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