[OpenAFS] loging into afs: ssh vs gdm

[Ron Croonenberg]

Hi Frank,

>Just a guess: Maybe you should have a look @ the last lines of
>~cowboy/.xession-errors . I once had a problem that looked like
>yours. I blamed AFS/Kerberos/NSA but is was just a syntax error in
>/etc/X11/XSession.d/somefile which prevented the session itself from
>starting.

hmm..   I don't seem to have .xsession-errors.
Another thing.  ~cowboy is on afs.  and I can start gdm sessions from
other machines with an afs client.

and...  on this machine a gdm login with root  works.

>Regards,
>
>Frank

thanks,

Ron