[bjames]

Im running IRIX 6.5.28 on the o2.  When I setup a new user account weather i use the System User Manager or the Alias user account setup icon, when I try to log into the new user account, the screen goes green for a few seconds then sends me back to the main user Login Screen.  Im not doing anything different from how I setup user accounts on my indy and Octane.  Any suggestions?

[Jacques]

Have you logged in as root and checked the logs for anything out of the ordinary?

I usually have to battle with FAM once I set up an O2, it's usually down to some weird inetd.conf issues.

[eudatux23]

Everything set to default, especially the shell? Hm weird, I would also recommend taking a look at the logs

[bjames]

What command do I use to open the log?

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I figured it out.

There are multiple errors from today that read “my unqualified host name IRIS1 unknown; sleeping for retry

And

7nable to qualify my own host name IRIS1 ... using short name

Then finally:
Nonque syserr(root) /etc/mail/Submit.cf..........  unknown user sgimsp.

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Another strange thing..  I went into the login screen options and found found a user account that was hidden called “lp”.  I configured the user “Lp” to be visible at the login screen.  Log out, then try to log in as lp and I still get the green screen and boots me back to the login screen.  The strange thing is if I go into he user manager, the usr ip does not show up, so I can’t even delete the user.  I’m logged i as root.

[Jacques]

'lp' is a standard user installed by the system, it owns the files in /var/spool/lp. You can disable it, but probably best not to delete it.

[bjames]

Interesting.... thanks

[lintweaker]

I am facing similar problems as the topic poster. I've created a user via the System Manager. When trying to login with the new user from the login screen I get the same green screen and then back to the login screen.

/var/adm/SYSLOG shows:
... Xsession: <user>: login
... Xsession: <user>: user "user": cannot chdir to home "/usr/people/<user>" (err 13), using "/"
....Xsession: <user>: Session "var/X11/xdm/Xsession: execution failed (err 13)
....Xsession: <user>: logout

Where <user> is the user I created.

Access rights on /usr/people are:
700 root : sys

And the user directory itself is set to:

755 <user> user

Does this seem okay?

doing a ' su - <user>' as root gives 'no shell' error

[dexter1]

Xsession: <user>: user "user": cannot chdir to home "/usr/people/<user>" (err 13), using "/"

Error 13 is Access Denied, see /usr/include/sys/errno.h

Code:

#define EACCES  13      /* Permission denied                    */

Access rights on /usr/people are:
700 root : sys

That can't be good. This is what i have:

Code:

oberon:/home/frank> ls -lartd /usr
drwxr-xr-x   50 root     sys         4096 Aug 18 11:19 /usr
oberon:/home/frank> ls -lartd /usr/people
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     sys           18 Jan  1  1996 /usr/people
oberon:/home/frank> ls -lartd /usr/people/*
drwxr-xr-x    2 guest    guest         47 Jan  1  1996 /usr/people/guest

So all these are permission 0755.
Your permissions for /usr/people seem to be wrong. Permissions of nested subdirs like /usr/people/<user> are affected by permission settings of higher directories, so try as root:

Code:

chmod go+rx /usr
chmod go+rx /usr/people

[lintweaker]

Code:

chmod go+rx /usr
chmod go+rx /usr/people

Thanks, tried that. Somehow did not work:

Code:

Aug 18 20:18:59 6B:IRIS1 Xsession: kramer: login
Aug 18 20:18:59 3B:IRIS1 Xsession: kramer: Session "/var/X11/xdm/Xsession" execution failed (err 13)
Aug 18 20:18:59 6B:IRIS1 Xsession: kramer: logout
Aug 18 20:18:59 3D:IRIS1 tfxd[1708]: caught XIO error
Aug 18 20:19:06 6B:IRIS1 Xsession: root: login
Aug 18 20:19:10 6D:IRIS1 tfxd[1793]: starting
Aug 18 20:19:11 4D:IRIS1 tfxd[1793]: some trouble reading the map!
Aug 18 20:19:11 6D:IRIS1 tfxd[1793]: Teleffect Master: Teleffect Unconfigured!  See User's Guide.
Aug 18 20:19:11 4D:IRIS1 tfxd[1793]: Have you configured Teleffect yet?  Run the Configuration Tool configure Teleffect. See the User's Guide for further information.

Any ideas?

[dexter1]

Aug 18 20:18:59 3B:IRIS1 Xsession: kramer: Session "/var/X11/xdm/Xsession" execution failed (err 13)

Same problem. You cannot access the Xsession script. BTW, the tfxd logs is from teleffect which is a service for sharing keyboard and mouse between several windows and IRIX systems. It's superseded by Synergy and VNC/rdesktop-like services.

I'm starting to think the IRIX system installation is incomplete or it has been altered by someone. Can you check for access to the Xsession file via:

Code:

ls -l /var/X11/xdm/Xsession

If not, i would like to see the output of

Code:

chkconfig