no gnome-login after system-move

Scheich · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 40

Hi all!

I didn't really know where to post this, so it gets into this one.

I had to change my harddisk, so I copied my Gentoo-partitions to the new disk via "cp" mostly. I got everything to run pretty smoothly, except for one thing:

When I first tried to run gdm, it complained about "/var/lib/gdm" not belonging to gdm:gdm. ok, sure, I chowned that, as it belonged to root due to the cp, I remembered. So I also chowned my home-directory.

Now, when trying to login via gdm, I get an error like "session lastetd less than 30 seconds" and I get back to gdm. It fails on the Default Pre-Session in "/etc/gdm/Sessions" (?) where it executes "sessreg ...".
This also happens with a completely new blank account.

When using xdm or gnome-failsafe, it simply returns to the login after a while. The everything-log simply reports a "session opened; session closed".

Only logging in as root into gnome works fine. I compared the ownership of some files with a running second computer, but could not find any files I forgot to chown so far.

Any help would be really really appreciated.

garo · Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 11:17 pm Post subject:

i would take the cowards way out:

Scheich · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 40

Thanks for the idea, I tried it, but It didn't help.
I also recompiled xfree, no change either.

Did I mention the default Xsession works? I guess it's gnome-related, so I also recompiled gnome-session, without success.

An "emerge baselayout" has been done after copying, that was a hint I read before copying in another topic. I'm running out of ideas...

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Moved from Other Things Gentoo.

There are a few threads out there that mention the "session lasted less than XX seconds" problem. I'd see if I could dig one of them up... perhaps the answer is in one.
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