[dist-upgrade to edgy] Can't login into gnome (X: client 2 rejected from local host)

I temporarily marked as gnome. could you attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log? It should have info if the crash is due to xorg. It may as well be that something is wrong with your user profiles (try logging in with a new user account).

I try to login with other user but the same thing is happens. Later i attach my Xorg.0.log

this is my logfile. is the problem in xserver?

I cannot be sure... It may as well be a problem with firewalls, gdm, xorg... I see this:

"AUDIT: Wed Oct 4 00:51:08 2006: 6134 X: client 2 rejected from local host"

at the end of the file.

but is the "client 2" your login or something else? I don't know. Basically, afaik, it says a 2nd client tried to connect (login to X) but was rejected due to security reasons. I would go to ubuntuforums.org and ask there as well, while waiting for a devel to come here.

I also found this, which might be a clue (do you have a firewall)? http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2006-06/msg00088.html

now i'm login into failsafe terminal and try to start application. Application start but without window borders including title bar, status bar, scroll bar. I think that is the problem ubuntu fails to create title bar and xserver crash. Can i change window theme from command line and change window decoration?

Thanks for your bug. Could you try to start gnome-session for the xterm debug session? Does it start? If not what messages do you get?

i try to start gnome-session but xserver restart agin. only message that display is SESSION_MANAGER=local/ivan..... i can't see the hole message because of xserver restart.

do you have something about that to ~/.xsession-errors, /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog?

hi i found something in .xsession-errors

here is my /var/log/messages at the end of file there is error of gconfd.

this is in my syslog there is a lot of errors

Oct 3 21:50:44 localhost gdm[5142]: Error reinitilizing server
Oct 3 21:52:07 localhost gdm[5204]: Error reinitilizing server
Oct 3 21:53:11 localhost gdm[5269]: Error reinitilizing server
Oct 3 21:55:10 localhost gdm[5330]: Error reinitilizing server
Oct 3 21:55:31 localhost gconfd (ivan-5483): starting (version 2.14.0), pid 5483 user 'ivan'
Oct 3 21:55:31 localhost gconfd (ivan-5483): Owner of /tmp/orbit-ivan2 is not the current user
Oct 3 21:55:31 localhost gconfd (ivan-5483): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Oct 3 21:55:31 localhost gconfd (ivan-5483): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/ivan/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Oct 3 21:55:31 localhost gconfd (ivan-5483): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Oct 3 21:55:31 localhost gconfd (ivan-5483): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 3
Oct 3 21:55:31 localhost gconfd (ivan-5483): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 4
Oct 3 21:55:33 localhost gconfd (ivan-5483): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly
Oct 3 21:55:33 localhost gconfd (ivan-5483): Exiting
Oct 3 21:55:34 localhost gdm[5408]: Error reinitilizing server
Oct 3 21:56:24 localhost gdm[3913]: The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds, it is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2 minutes before trying again on display :0.

in .xsession-errors file, I see "Owner of /tmp/orbit-ivan2 is not the current user ". who is it then? can you please do:

whoami > permissions101.txt
ls -l /tmp/orbit-ivan2 >> permissions101.txt
ls -l /home >> permissions101.txt
ls -al /home/yourusername/ >> permissions101.txt
ls -alR .gconf >> permissions101.txt

(> becomes >> after the first command, also pls change yourusername to your user name :) )

then attach the resulting permissions.txt here? It will be inside whichever directory you issued these commands. I want to check permissions as I see too many
"Failed to load source "xml:readwrite:/home/ivan2/.gconf": Failed: Could not make directory `/home/ivan2/.gconf': No such file or directory" type messages...

And finally, do you have any firewalls installed (like "firestarter" etc)?

hi, first time when i failed to login i created new user ivan2 but again i can not login. I do not have a firewall installed. i think that this user is owner of this files.

 i can't found solution for this problem. problem is not in my username. i think problem is in gtk or gnome because i wrote that windows have not scrollbar for example and when i start xterm and scrollbar is needing xserver restarts some kill it.
thanks

now i performing clean install from dapper cdrom and everithing works fine, but i upgrade to edgy and the same problem occured. i can not login to my desktop, xserver restarts. do you think that problem is in my videocard i'm using an old voodoo banshee videocard?

unfortunately, I have nno idea. I would go to ubuntuforums.org for help with this. The devels will try to fix the issue on a distro-basis, but they will not be willing to offer support to persons.

hi ,
i solve the problem and i think that is a serious bug in tdfx driver for my voodoo banshee videocard. now i change driver from tdfx to vesa ad everithing works fine. would you inform me when the bug is fixed. same problem occured when i try edgy live cdrom xserver restarts. that is all. thanks to everyone wich try to help me

Closing 'meta-gnome2' task.

i found some info and maybe bug is fixed in 1.3 version of package

ivangetov: could you try Feisty if it works now?

i could not try if it is fixed in feisty because i sold my banshee card and now i'm with geforce, but i wrote that everithing is ok with the version 1.3 in package xorg-tdfx-driver

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