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Re: Can not Login from console

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ddemerre@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, 10 September 2001 21:24:13 UTC+2, Xiaoqin Qiu  wrote:
>> Hi Skylar,
>> 
>> Thank you very much for your information. I agree that the problem sounded
>> like an X-related problem.
>> I checked ~/.xsession-errors file, and I found the following error for the
>> user that couldn't login:
>> 
>> /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession: XKB_IN_USE: unbound variable
>> logout
>> 
>> Any idea about this error? I am using gdm-2.0beta2-45 rpm on this RedHat 7.1
>> machine. And this user doesn't have ~/.xsession or ~/.Xclients directory.
>> 
>> Thanks again for your help!
>> 
>> Xiaoqin
>> 
>> Skylar Thompson wrote:
>> 
>> > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Xiaoqin Qiu wrote:
>> >
>> > [snip]
>> >
>> > > The behavior is that they typed in login and password, and the system
>> > > tried to log them in, after a while, the login window showed up again
>> > > with no error message. In the system log file, there is no error message
>> > > either. Just open session and close session for the user. And this login
>> > > problem didn't happen very consistently. It happened in most cases we
>> > > tried.
>> > >
>> > > On the other hand, the user account we created locally on the box can
>> > > login without any problem.
>> >
>> > This sounds like an X-related problem. Is there anything in
>> > /var/log/xdm-errors or /var/log/XFree86.log? Another thing you might try
>> > is loggin in on the console using a user who can't log into X, and then do
>> > "Xwrapper <localhost> >& X.log" (with localhost replaced by whatever the
>> > hostname of the localhost is). After the X server dies, look at X.log for
>> > details on the error, and post it if you still can't solve it. HTH. HAND.
>> >
>> > [snip]
>> >
>> > --
>> > -- Skylar Thompson (<e-mail removed>)
>> >
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> 
> Hi All, and sorry for answering to a thread that's more than a decennium old.
> 
> OK, 
> So this thread is extremely old (in Internet Terms), however since I did not find the problem solved in this thread, and I encountered the exact same problem (.xsession-errors file holds error indication "XKB_IN_USE: unbound variable"), which caused me to search and find this thread, I post this solution anyway.
> 
> The error XKB_IN_USE: unbound variable prevented me effectively from logging in (as a specific user) through the graphical user interface.
> The problem is that the X-session startup script (/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession in the quoted case) is "dirty" in so far that it uses an environment variable that is not defined 
> (it's even a bit trickier than that: the environment variable (in my case) is used in a test to check whether the variable is defined <ironic>: [ -z "$XKB_IN_USE" ]).

Should be: "${XKB_IN_USE-}" 
This returns a value of '' if the variable is unset.

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