Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 120755
Cannot login because of Xsession or Xclients not executable
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:40 EST
Description of problem: I cannot login using gdm straight to gnome, I have to open a failsafe session then, do a startx || gnome-session and it works fine (this is as a user authenticated via an LDAP); root (from the /etc/passwd; not LDAP) can get in just fine. This seemed to just randomly happen one day; I used to be able to login just fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: all the time Steps to Reproduce: 1. type in user 2. type in pass 3. hit enter (default session or GNOME session) Actual results: x doesn't start, gives the "session started for < 10 seconds" prompt and points me to ~/.xsessions-errors Expected results: Gnome to startup. Additional info: Sometimes I have to delete my /tmp/.X0-lock file before I can login with the failsafe method. I played with the Xsession file a bit (commented out line 126, and took out the ssh-agent bit -- didn't help at all. Also tried using switchdesk which provided the same error messages only xclients was ~/.Xclient
Created attachment 99378 [details] xsession-error file bash-2.05b$ cat .xsession-errors /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "<username removed>" /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession: line 126: /usr/bin/ssh-agent /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients: No such file or directory /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession: line 126: exec: /usr/bin/ssh-agent /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients: cannot execute: No such file or directory bash-2.05b$ ls -al /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3288 Apr 13 13:33 /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession bash-2.05b$ ls -al /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1914 Oct 23 21:53 /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
I'm unable to reproduce this in the current supported release of Fedora Core 2. Setting status to "CURRENTRELEASE".