weird stuff when login non-root account

JmanOM04 · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 17

whenever i try to login with some non-root account i get a bunch of weird error messages, but they have no error messages. then i get a black background, no desktop, no nothin. currently i am using gnome, im tryin to emerge kde, but that aint wrking, but thats a different problem all together. I was wonderin if maybe it had to do with some wrong file permission setting or somethin, i dunno, im pretty much lost.
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Vidar · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:13 am Post subject:

Before anyone can understand what you're talking about, we need the exact error messages. You need to be more specific.
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JmanOM04 · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 17

thats the thing, there is no message in them. all that comes up is the message box with the (!) icon and no message at all. about 5-7 of these come up, and thats all.
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schism39401 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Posts: 130

have you tried deleting that user and recreating?

JmanOM04 · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 17

yes, ive deleted the user and readded it many times, ive also tried other users, any non-root user it doesnt wrk
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Vidar · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:57 am Post subject:

Did you try re-emerging the gnome packages? Just a hunch, but specifically I would look at pango. Does X itself start up fine?
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JmanOM04 · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 17

Yea, when i do gdm and login with root it works fine, or do xdm i get a basic x server. Ill try re-emerging gnome, maybe pango

oh, and i was wonderin how to you RE emerge a package? is there some option with emerge?
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Vidar · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 4:23 am Post subject:

No, you just type the package you want to emerge again, so for pango, just "emerge pango". However, for metapackages like "kde" and "gnome", you can't do that because they don't actually do anything, but just "depend" on all the packages required. In that case, I would open the actual ebuild in the text editor of your choice and emerge each of the packages by hand -- that is if you want to re-emerge them.

That said, that might not even be the problem, I'm not really sure. You can't tell what the problem is if you can't see the error messages.
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The sword runs into the heart of Hverdrungs son
So he avenges his father" -- Amon Amarth - Burning Creation