On one of my machines w/ Red Hat 9 that I've been using for some time, I've just started getting errors when trying to log in. I've made no changes to the system. I get the blue Red Hat login screen, I log in as always, the screen flashes and an error message appears saying something like: "Your login lasted less than 10 seconds. If you did not end the login, there may be a problem w/ full partitions or an installation error. Try logging in under Failsafe Mode to investigate..."
So I log in as root under Failsafe Mode; my partitions are fine, no where near filled. All filesystems are mounted. I find the following in ~/.xsession-errors:
/usr/bin/startkde: line 1: sed: command not found /usr/bin/startkde: line 1: sed: command not found /usr/bin/startkde: line 11: rm: command not found /usr/bin/startkde: line 1: df: command not found /usr/bin/startkde: line 1: df: command not found /usr/bin/startkde: line 22: [: -lt: unary operator expected /usr/bin/startkde: line 27: [: -lt: unary operator expected /usr/bin/startkde: line 1: mktemp: command not found /usr/bin/startkde: line 1: mktemp: command not found /usr/bin/startkde: line 34: $testfile_tmp: ambiguous redirect You don't have write permissions for /tmp
The startkde script isn't finding sed, rm, df, etc. Do I have some kind of PATH problem?? (I didn't think to check this last night- it was late and the machine in question is at home and I'm at work now...) I changed the permissions on /tmp, rebooted several times, still couldn't log in as a user. KDE *will* start up if I log in as root.
Any idea what might have happened here? If it is indeed a PATH problem, can someone refresh my memory - is ~/.bash_profile the place to check/change? Thanks for any pointers...
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