[RULE] Fwd: Re: Can not log in

[Ingo Lantschner]

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    Date: Thu,  1 Apr 2004 19:46:59 +0200
    From: Ingo Lantschner <address@hidden>
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 Subject: Re: Can not log in
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> Ingo, this shouldn't be this difficult.  I suspect that at some point
> you have modified something that you should not have.  You have two
> options:
>
> 1. Continue to pick at this problem until you understand what's failing.
> 2. Reinstall Red Hat 9 from scratch, and then reinstall LTSP.
ok, I have choosen the second possibility, since we should open this cyber on
Monday - so I am a bit in a hurry ;-)

Interesting, I installed RH9 from the scratch, I did neither install KDE nor
GNOME. This gave me graphical Login, then a X-Window with I think twm and one
single xterm-window. I rember this as one of the fallbacks in some X-script.
Then I installed the icewm RPMs, a special version for RedHat 8 from the
Rule-Project. I included the proposed .xession in the users home and tried to
login - no icewm, still twm. Now the very interesting part: I realized that I
had forgotten to chmod a+x this script - doing this, and loging in again
reproduced the error I had before: The Loginwindow reapears some seconds after I
entered user and password - no winowmanager at all.

So I guess now that this special version of iceWM is missing something which is
needed for xdm. Is this possible? (the last question is more for our friends at
the RULE-project, I used iceWM-1.2.7-3RULErh8.0.i386.rpm). Because we use these
packages since ever on RH9 with out problem, but always w/o xdm.

Thanks in the meantime to all who contributed so far, I can do no more checking
for today, but I will keep you posted about the results. Ingo.



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