topic Unable to login to linux maches using xmanager in Operating System - Linux

Unable to login to linux maches using xmanager

Binu_5 — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 01:59:40 GMT

HI All

Iam facing problem while logging to linux systems using nis users through Grahpic mode..(Xmanager)

Your session lasted less than 10 seconds .If you have not logged out yourself this could mean that there is some installation problem or that you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can can fix this problem

Can anybody please help

Thanks
Binu

Re: Unable to login to linux maches using xmanager

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:57:43 GMT

Always a good idea to follow the recommendations in the error message. Maybe 20% of the time, this will solve the problem.

Log onto the server via telnet or ssh.

df -H

Resolve any disk space issues. /var needs some free space for login to work, as does / (root).

SEP

Re: Unable to login to linux maches using xmanager

Morcos — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:42:57 GMT

Hi Binu,

I had the same message before when I tried to login using a user.
The problem was the login shell was set to /sbin/nologin.
To fix it change the shell for the user :
usermod -s /bin/bash user_name
or by using redhat-config-users

Hope this helps,
Regards,
Ziad

Re: Unable to login to linux maches using xmanager

Gopi Sekar — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:06:22 GMT

It looks like your X session failed to start, the reason could be out of space, or you dont have permission on certain config files, etc.

check the /var/log/XFree86.log file it should have the error message if at all any.

Regards,
Gopi

Re: Unable to login to linux maches using xmanager

Robert Walker_8 — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:28:25 GMT

Hi,

I had a similar problem have you played with PAM somewhere down the track?

/etc/pam_env.conf - setting REMOTEHOST variable and the DISPLAY variable can cause problems.

/etc/security/access.conf is another one - if you have set up restricted access to the console you will get similar messages.

Robert.

Re: Unable to login to linux maches using xmanager

Morcos — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:10:43 GMT

Hi Binu,

To be sure this isn't an X session problem due to the size of /var or whatever, you can go to init 3 and there try to login, if you can't login this means the problem isn't related to x session.

Regards,
Ziad