[TriLUG] More specifics on Login Issues

[Jeff Tickle]

Thanks Jeremy and Janyne, but everything looks fine in the log files:

~/.xsession.errors contains nothing really suspicious.  Something about
destroying a mutex which isnt the problem, and apparantly EveryBuddy
redirects all of its output into the file as well... but other than
that, nothing seems icky.

There are no /tmp/xses* files.

/var/log/messages doesn't complain about anything.  And on the subject
of PAM, there are several lines in messages about opening and closing
sessions successfully for jtickle, and the timestamps suggest that it
wasn't instantaneous or anything like that.  Of course, these logins
have been done through the graphical login.

/var/log/secure has nothing out of the ordinary.  Just a bunch of ftp,
ssh, and sudo stuff.

but the problem is definitely still there.  :-/  About the PAM
configuration, what in particular should I look for?  (and in which
file?)

Thanks again, and in advance.

-J

Janyne Kizer wrote:
> What does your ~/.xsession-errors look like?  Is there anything in
> tmp/ that starts with xses (something like /tmp/xses-USERID.9svxXg)?
> If so, what does that look like?  Do you have quotas turned on?

Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> Hm, could be there's something messed up with getty, the utility that
> operates the text-based login screen.  Not sure exactly what to look at
> though.  If getty isn't running the "login" program correctly, there
> *should* be a message in /var/log/messages or /var/log/secure about it,
> but maybe not.
> 
> Or maybe something wrong with the PAM configuration?
> 
> This probably doesn't help too much, but since no one else had responded
> yet I thought I'd at least mention those two things.  Good luck.
> 
> --Jeremy
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