Re: Strange problems... users booted.

I'm using Gnome and I haven't seen this problem (yet :-)

Chris Ditri wrote:

>Both ways, Diego.
>
>Any Ideas?
>
>
>On Friday 21 November 2003 12:18 pm, Diego Torres Milano wrote:
>  
>
>>Does the problem appears only when the users login through thin clients
>>or with fat as well ?
>>
>>Chris Ditri wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Thanks again for the input.
>>>
>>>I am using X4, and haven't had any problems with KDE yet.
>>>
>>>If I were to guess, I would have thought it would have been a cookie...
>>>but that is supposed to be stored in .xauthority... and I have definitely
>>>wiped them out.  I wiped everything out that the user owned on the
>>>system... no dice.  Whatever it is keeping "track" of that uid is not
>>>owned by the user.
>>>
>>>When I googled, all I could see that was similar were issues with people
>>>who did no properly use their xhost -- but xhost works on a per machine
>>>basis.... not per user.
>>>
>>>Nothing different about those users.  They worked one day, and not the
>>>next...
>>>
>>>Somewhere on the system that uid is "blacklisted"... I just don't know
>>>where X keeps track of that stuff if it is not in Xauthority...  The
>>>other possibility is a pam issue.... but I don't think it is as likely...
>>>and I still don't have a clue on how to procede even if it was...
>>>
>>>thanks again.
>>>
>>>
>>>Chris
>>>
>>>On Friday 21 November 2003 09:01 am, Tim Bates wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>I can't have contaminated uid's floating around... sometime in the
>>>>>future
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>they
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>may get used, and cause all kinds of touble that would be a b*tch to
>>>>>trouble-shoot.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Yeah, good point. Though using the normal tools people use, you'd be OK
>>>>for quite some time since new users are normally added as 1 higher than
>>>>the current highest uid.
>>>>But you are right about it being a pain to trouble shoot and it's
>>>>probably best to find a real solution.
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>Any other Ideas?
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>I just googled, and it seems to be a common problem but there were no
>>>>obvious answers to what causes it. I would guess its a problem with X
>>>>since people reported the same error using XDM and GDM aswell. I would
>>>>suggest a different version of X on the server, or maybe a different
>>>>version of KDM.
>>>>
>>>>One thing I did find was a mention that KDE 3 wont work properly on X3.
>>>>That could be your problem if that's what you're running, but that's
>>>>fairly unlikely I would think.
>>>>
>>>>Is there anything different about the 2 accounts that are screwy? Like
>>>>different group, or strange UID?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Tim
>>>>
>>>>
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