[Initng] Can't login...

[Ismael Luceno]

El Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:40:03 +0200
Daniel Malmgren <dm at mensa.se> escribió:

> Hi.
> I've got a very strange problem here, thought maybe someone on this
> list could give any hint as to what is happening.
> 
> Yesterday I upgraded my laptop running Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 preview.
> Suddenly I can't login anymore. I choose the user to login as in gdm,
> type the password and a few seconds later I'm back to the gdm screen.
> This happens for all users of the machine. In .xsession-errors the
> last line says "bind: Permission denied".
> 
> Now to the strange part. If I start gdm manually (as root, from the
> tty) everything works perfectly fine! Also if I start up using
> sysvinit everything works equally fine. This only happens when using
> initng to start gdm. Anyone please tell me what is the difference
> between starting gdm manually and letting initng do it!
> 
> And before anyone asks, no I'm not running selinux.
> 
> /Daniel
> 
> ps. Oh, by the way. For those of you running Fedora. initng-conf-gtk
> is now in Fedora. Just do a yum install initng-conf-gtk and you'll
> have a nice looking gui for initng :-) ds.
> 

The problem may come from dbus, the startup is probably failing when the
session manager tries to bind to it's socket.

Fedora's init scripts may give a clue ;).

-- 
Ismael Luceno
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