Gnome and X terminals

[Richard Allen]

I installed the latest Gnome depot's on a L2000 machine running 11i.
The L2000 machines are central machines with no graphical capabilities. People use various X terminals (everyhting from the old 700-RX to EnvizeX II) to connect to the machines and work on them. There are also people using Linux boxes and Xnest to connect.

After running into problems getting this to work I read the cases related to Gnome here in these forums but I cant seem to figure out whats wrong here. I have gdm running, the xterminals get a login screen from gdm and can type in their username and password.
They then get a prompt about their last logout not being right and would they like a clean slate or resume from last. Regardless of which they select, the login proceedure bombs out and the login screen returns.

The files in /var/opt/gnome/gdm (displayname.log) are always empty. Nothing of interest in $HOME/.gnome or any other place I can think of looking.

Has anyone here managed to get Gnome up and running like this and meight be willing to help? :)

[Alex Glennie]

pick a user and move out of the way : $HOME/.gnome/session-options & session

attempt to login ?

Is root affected too ?

[Steven E. Protter]

It looks like permissions on the config files.

Here would be my general approach:

Create a new user for each type of login, clean with no gnome config files.

Do a clean login. Copy the configuration files and permissoins to a user of the same type that has problems. Change ownership so the user has r/w access.

The problem goes away, you have a templete.

You will probably need one for each user type.

SEP

[Richard Allen]

I did the tests for root. I removed the /.gnome directory completely and then logged in as root. No change. It did create a new /.gnome folder:

root@tuska:/.gnome->ls -lR
total 32
drwx------ 2 root sys 96 Mar 18 17:40 accels
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 42 Mar 18 17:40 gdm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 26 Mar 18 17:40 session-options

./accels:
total 0

I also tried the same for a regular user but again, same results.

[Richard Allen]

This is a nasty problem... I'll give you that... :)