Description of Problem: When loggin in through GDM and your home directory, for whatever reason, doesn't exist, gdm tells you this with a nice dialog that asks if you wish to log in with "/" as your home directory. No matter if the user clicks "Yes" or "No" you are returned to the login screen and not allowed to procede. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.4.0.7-13 How Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Unmount your home directory or some other such so that $HOME isn't there 2. Try to log in via gdm 3. Observe behavior of the dialog telling you your home directory doesn't exist Actual Results: Expected Results: Well I would like to log in. Additional Information: For the NCSU Realm Kit we use AFS for home directories and I have my own xsession files. One of the things they do is check for your home directory and warn the user if its not there. (We create them a temp home dir if they click continue.) So I'd either like to disable this check or get it working so that my scripts can take over and use a temp dir.
If you got as far as gnome-session or whatever running, I'd expect the desktop to barf with / as homedir, which would result in returning to gdm. It's not getting that far, right? Probably a pretty simple fix.
Doesn't get that far. I've tested this with stock versions of all the xsession stuff from RHL8.0 and I get the same behavior. X Doesn't restart, GDM just looks at you a couple seconds (delay between logins?) and then refreshes the login box to ask you to enter your user id. Thanks!
Moved to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103258