Gnome issue

[E K]

Most likely the home directory of user oracle (/home/oracles) is missing or is not owned by oracle. In that case X can not create the session file and hence the message.

The error you get from Gconf seem to confirm that. If that is the case you can create the home directory and/or change its ownership to oracle. However, you might have problem with the oracle installation in general and may need to sort that out.

Hope that helps
EK

John Van Ostrand <john-Da48MpWaEp0CzWx7n4ubxQ at public.gmane.org> wrote: On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 18:48 +0300, Kihara Muriithi wrote:
> A couple of hours ago, I installed Oracle 10g on a RHE3, following
> documentation to the letter. After installation, all was well untill I
> logged out. Then logging in as user oracle fails. Xfree86 works well,
> but gnome fails, leaving me with a dark desktop and a pop up with the
> error message below
>  
> "your session only lasted less than 10  seconds. If you have not
> logged out yourself, this could mean that there is installation
> problem or that you may be out of diskspace." When I click okay, I  am
> kicked out of the login session.

Check the ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile of the user that you tried to
login as. Make sure that the user's shell is a standard Linux shell
(/bin/bash usually) and that it results in a command prompt.
 
> I log in as another user and these are some of the information that I
> dug out that I assume may be helpful.
>  
> (nautilus:7307): Eel-WARNING **: GConf error:
>   Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are
> that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale
> NFS locks due to a system crash. See
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1:
> IOR file '/home/oracle/.gconfd/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no
> gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file
> '/home/oracle/.gconfd/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd
> located: No such file or directory)
> 
> 
> [root at theonion root]# ls -ld /home/oracle/
> drwxrwxrwx   18 oracle   oinstall     4096 Sep  5 17:22 /home/oracle/
> [root at theonion root]# df /home/oracle/
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on 
> /dev/hda2             36859304   6736952  28249980  20% /
> 
> What could be the issue? I am sure its related to oracle installation
> as it affect only one user and it started after installing the said
> application. Is there anybody who has seen this problem in the past?
> Is there a way of starting oracle without logging in as user oracle?

Use the "switch user" command:  "su - oracle" if that gives you a
problem try "su oracle".

You could also try to login to a text console (press Ctrl-Alt-F1) as
oracle.

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