From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 Description of problem: If non-root user shutdown laptop from X, next time laptop boots first user login fails, second always works. No problem for root. Problem exists on my laptop, but it always ok on my desktop (both RH7.1). It looks like something didn't clean up during shutdown... shutdown is done from GNOME session. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.add new user 2.add right to shutdown 3.login as user 4.shutdown laptop from GNOME 5.after boot to level 5, login to GNOME session as user Actual Results: first time login after reboot fails Expected Results: loigin without problems Additional info: All software installed from CD made from ISO images on your web site. It looks like some cleanup related to X11 for this user isn't done, when laptop is shutdown by user from GNOME
gdm is the right component.
No one in the linux related news group is able to help, but situation is really annoying: to login twice all the time...
I can't reproduce, and gdm has an enormous number of bugfixes since 7.1. Assuming fixed in 7.2/rawhide.