Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 931

Login Successful but GNOME Desktop Fails "
Login Successful but KDE Desktop Fails"
4 If the user's home directory has been used with another Linux distribution, remove
the Xauthority file in the user's home. Use a console login via
and run rm .Xauthority as this user. This should eliminate X authenti-
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cation problems for this user. Try a graphical login again.
5 If graphical login still fails, do a console login with
an X session on another display—the first one (:0) is already in use:
startx -- :1
This should bring up a graphical screen and your desktop. If it does not, check
the log files of the X Window System (/var/log/Xorg.displaynumber
.log) or the log file for your desktop applications (.xsession-errors in
the user's home directory) for any irregularities.
6 If the desktop could not start because of corrupt configuration files, proceed with
Section 52.4.3, " Login Successful but GNOME Desktop Fails "
Section 52.4.4, " Login Successful but KDE Desktop Fails"
The following are some common reasons why network authentication for a particular
user might fail on a specific machine:
• The user might have entered the wrong password.
• The username exists in the machine's local authentication files and is also provided
by a network authentication system, causing conflicts.
• The home directory exists but is corrupt or unavailable. Perhaps it is write protected
or is on a server that is inaccessible at the moment.
• The user does not have permission to log in to that particular host in the authentica-
tion system.
• The machine has changed hostnames, for whatever reason, and the user does not
have permission to log in to that host.
• The machine cannot reach the authentication server or directory server that contains
that user's information.
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