Okay... I feel stupid now... You were right... this time. It was a quota thing. I am not positive if that was the case the last few times it happened, but I will definitely keep an eye out for that from now on! If that is what it has been all along, I will feel quite ashamed! I will monitor it. Thank you so much for your help Terry. Chris On Wednesday 24 March 2004 10:30 am, T. Horsnell (tsh) wrote: > >Hello. > > > >I am having some very weird problems with xdm. I have have setup a > > thinclient environment using pxes boot. But, in addition to the thin > > clients, there are some "thick" clients on the network that pull X > > sessions via xdmcp. > > > >Normally, everything works fine. But, every once in a while -- without > >warning -- when a specific user logs in it crashes his connection and xdm > >restarts. It will not let him in. Right now that user is me (which is > >good, because I now have the time to try to get to the bottom of this). > > > >So, whenever I try to login, I put in my username and password into xdm. > > I hit enter, and my screen crashes, and xdm is respawned. It will not > > let me in. Now, before you start talking about "xhost this" and "xauth > > that" keep in mind OTHER USERS CAN LOG IN TO AND FROM THE VERY SAME > > MACHINES. The ipaddress of the client appears to be completely > > irrelevant here. > > > >It is the UID that xdm rejects, not the ipaddress. I just cannot figure > > out *why* it suddenly decides to start hating certain uids. I have > > cleared out everything in my home directory and everything in /tmp that I > > own. No matter what I do, it will not let me log in. On the console I > > get these messages: > > > >AUDIT: Wed Mar 24 09:46:04 2004: 2198 X: client 2 rejected from IP > >208.226.104.24 port 59785 > >AUDIT: Wed Mar 24 09:46:04 2004: 2198 X: client 2 rejected from IP > >208.226.104.24 port 59786 > >AUDIT: Wed Mar 24 09:46:04 2004: 2198 X: client 2 rejected from IP > >208.226.104.24 port 59787 > >AUDIT: Wed Mar 24 09:46:04 2004: 2198 X: client 2 rejected from IP > >208.226.104.24 port 59788 > >AUDIT: Wed Mar 24 09:46:04 2004: 2198 X: client 2 rejected from IP > >208.226.104.24 port 59789 > >and so on.. > >. > >. > >. > > > > > >This has been happening for about a year now, and I have found no cure. > > The only thing I can do (and this is a major work-around) is change the > > UID of the user, then blacklist that UID. > > > >It seems to me that if I can find where this sort of information is stored > > for X, I could clear it out... but I cannot find it anywhere... I > > thought for sure that it would be in /tmp or in my home directory, but it > > is not. > > > >Could someone please help? > > > >Thank you. > > > >Chris > >_______________________________________________ > >XFree86 mailing list > >XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > Is it that once a user is refused login, they can > never login thereafter, or does the problem > come and go on a per-user basis even tho they > change nothing? > > Somesort of disk-space problem? > Would you happen to have diskquotas enforced? > > Cheers, > Terry. > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
