From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080416 Fedora/2.0.0.14-1.fc7 Firefox/2.0.0.14 Description of problem: When a user does not have a home directory but tries to log in they are given an endless loop of x-11 trying to start, rather than an error message or a time out or just kicking the person back to the login screen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.25-14 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install f9 2.configured LDAP network configurations 3.did not install home directories. 4.attempted to login. Actual Results: Endless loop of x-11 trying to start Expected Results: some sort of error message Additional info:
I can confirm this problem also happens when either /home or any user directory under /home is a link.
I've tested a little bit further. My homedirectory is on an hfsplus unjournaled case-sensitive volume, mounted under /data. My users live under /data/People. I used to link /home to /data/People and This has always worked great for me. To test, I have created two mountpoints, one hfsplus unjournaled, case-sensitive and one jfs. I have created on these filesystems a directory containing a clean /etc/skel copy'ed homedirectory. Like this: /test/jfs.home /test/hfsplus.home Now, when I create a link in /home or make /home in its entirety link to the jfs volume, gdm starts normally. When I link to the hfsplus one, gdm starts crashing restarting crashing restarting, ad inifitum.
Hey guys, we've pushed packages to updates-testing that may resolve this issue. The update report is here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-3761 You can install the update by bringing up a terminal and typing $ su - [enter root password] # yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gdm
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