From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Description of problem: I upgraded from FC1 to FC2. After upgrade, login to any regular user account using the login GUI hangs. Login as root succeeds. I tried both my existing user account and a new user account I created with no dot files. After entering the username and password, it switch to the screen that shows the icons across the bottom as pieces of the system are initialized. I get the metacity icon and then nothing. Sometimes, if I wait long enough or poke the system is just the right way, I get some of the other icons, but I've never succeeded in getting all of them and having the login finish. In /var/log/messages I get: Sep 16 21:48:13 dell bonobo-activation-server (shannon-1810): iid OAFIID:BrokenNoType:20000808 has a NULL type Sep 16 21:48:13 dell bonobo-activation-server (shannon-1810): invalid character '#' in iid 'OAFIID:This#!!%$iid%^$%_|~!OAFIID_ContainsBadChars' Sep 16 21:48:15 dell modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for sound_slot_0 Sep 16 21:48:15 dell modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for sound_slot_0 Sep 16 21:48:15 dell modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for sound_slot_1 I suspect the first two have something to do with the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. login as non-root user 2. 3. Actual Results: login hangs Expected Results: login succeeds Additional info:
I figured out what the problem was. All the home directories for all the users were in /home/<user>, but because the automounter wasn't working, and /home was being automounted, the login hung. This should really be marked a duplicate of some automounter bug, but I'm just going to close it as "not a bug" for now...