Infrastructure Software

I'm receiving the following message when trying to log into the oracle OS account with the GNOME interface turned on:

GDM could not write to your authorization file. This could mean that you are out of disk space or that your home directory could not be opened for writing. In any case, it is not possible to log in. Please contact your system administrator.

I can successfully ssh into the oracle account via a terminal window session.

df -h on the host does not show a problem with disk space:

[root@oel1 ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
3.9G 2.6G 1.1G 71% /
/dev/xvda1 99M 13M 81M 14% /boot
tmpfs 513M 0 513M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-u02
20G 173M 19G 1% /u02
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-u03
20G 1.9G 17G 10% /u03
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-u01
20G 44M 19G 1% /u01
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-orabin
7.9G 147M 7.4G 2% /orabin
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-tmp
2.0G 68M 1.9G 4% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-home
2.0G 68M 1.9G 4% /home


Some searching on the internet indicated that the .Xauthority file was the problem.
I noticed that there was no .Xauthority file in the /home/oracle directory. I logged into the oracle OS account via a terminal session and issued the command mkxauth -c. This created an .Xauthority file in my /home/oracle directory. The file has the following permissions which look like they match other hosts we have the Oracle Database running on:

-rw------- 1 oracle oinstall 265 2011-03-08 13:32 /home/oracle/.Xauthority


Any heal is greatly appreciated.

JS