Thanks to:
Dr. David Harper
sysadmin_at_astro
Peter Stern
Ryan McConigley
Marie-Claude Vialatte
Atro Tossavainen
Allan Johannesen
Selden Ball Jr
Shane McDaniel
Hank Lee
Willian Magill
for replying and giving me all kinds of suggestions.
The suggestions basically fall into 2 categories:
1. X login script mis-settings
2. Quota excess
The problem turned to be caused by an improper setting in user's .cshrc. It
calls a couple of other scripts and one of which HARD-CODED the DISPLAY to
the server's local display. So he couldn't login from any X terminals except
directly from the graphic console.
Interesting enough, almost at the same time the other user experienced the
drama that he couldn't login at the console but no problem from any X
terminals.
This time it proved to be the quota problem. After I removed a big core dump
in his home dir, everything was OK. But what puzzles me is why he could
still login on X terminals at that moment.
Cheers,
Alan Lu
Email: alan_at_ms.unimelb.edu.au
The original question is:
One of my users has the problem to login to a server via X terminal, while
all others have no problem. As he described:
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"I types in the login, then the password, and then
the screen goes back to the initial screen where the names of all the
machines are given for you to choose.
It's almost like logging out instead of logging in."
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Received on Fri May 18 2001 - 00:53:21 NZST