On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Niki Kovacs <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Niki Kovacs a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> Since this morning, when I login, GDM gives me an error message on login >> (it's in french, so I try to translate roughly): >> >> $HOME/.dmrc has been ignored, but it is responsible for saving sessions. >> It should not be writable for other users, and permissions should be 644. >> >> Now I had a look at this ~/.dmrc, and permissions were rw-------. So I >> did a chmod 644 on it (rw-r--r--) and logged back out... but the problem >> still persists. I'm puzzled. >> >> Any suggestions? >> > I'll answer this myself, as I just found the solution. Suddenly my > user's home directory went from 700 to 777. I chmodded it back to 700, > and now everything seems alright. I had a power outage this night, and I > have no other explanation that my home directory mysteriously changed > permissions. > > Go figure. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Yes , that's why the error occured , you had a power outage so your filesystem went wrong and your home dir's permission was somehow changed , it was the filesystem problem , if you have power outage next time , i recommend you check your filesystem first in the next boot -- Keep It Simple Stupid Thomas X. Iverson _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos