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Then instead of showing the loading icons, it returns to the authentication page. Have changed password for that account just to be

check that the login shell exists and isn't exiting immediately.

--- Abhishek Daga abhishekdaga@yahoo.com wrote:

This problem happened since this morning. Have 2 user accounts (in addition to 1 root) on an FC3 system.

Root and 1 user account logs in fine.

Another user account displays strange logging behavior. On typing username and password, it does not say authentication failed, but attempts a login and the screen changes with the hour glass appearing for a second or so.

What is the shell and home dir of this user? can u give the line containing this username from /etc/passwd?

Then instead of showing the loading icons, it returns to the authentication page. Have changed password for that account just to be sure but it still persists. And only for this particular account.

Check the disk space ? Possiblity is less even then do it.

or

Delete or move all the .x*, .X* , .kde* , .gnome* files/dirs from his home area.

Check .bashrc, .bash_profile, .bash_logout files in his home dir.

Any clues? thanks.

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On 5/26/05, Abhishek Daga abhishekdaga@yahoo.com wrote:

This problem happened since this morning. Have 2 user accounts (in addition to 1 root) on an FC3 system.

Root and 1 user account logs in fine.

Another user account displays strange logging behavior. On typing username and password, it does not say authentication failed, but attempts a login and the screen changes with the hour glass appearing for a second or so.

Then instead of showing the loading icons, it returns to the authentication page. Have changed password for that account just to be sure but it still persists. And only for this particular account.

I had a similar problem once. It happened everytime I launched K3B by su to root. It turned out that the ownership of ~/.Xauthority changed to root everytime I ran K3B as root. 'chown'ing the file back to my username everytime that happened allowed me to login.

VJP