1. Re: Ordinary user account can't log in; 2. Greylisting

["Jay F. Shachter" <jay%m5.chicago.il.us@localhost>]

Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Liam Proven would write on Tue Oct 8 08:48:13 2024:

> 
> I rebooted my test NetBSD 10 laptop  today. (Thinkpad W500, Core 2
> Duo, AMD GPU, 8G RAM, SSD, running x86-64 version).
> 
> `root` can log in to... whatever the basic WM it has by default.
> 
> My ordinary unprivileged user account can't.
> 
> I can flip to a vconsole and log in from text mode, no problem. So
> it's not my password.
> 
> I can run `startx` and Xfce loads fine. So X11 is OK.
> 
> But on the graphical login screen it just goes blank and returns to login.
> 
> I updated with `pkgin update` then `pkgin upgrade`. Rebooted. No change.
> 
> i have little NetBSD experience and no idea where to continue
> troubleshooting this.
> 
> Could anyone give me any pointers please?
> 

This would happen if you were out of space on /home (or, mutatis
mutandis, wherever your non-root users log in to), because the
graphical login creates files and subdirectories in the home directory
whereas the nongraphical login does not.

The above is only one explanation, so check that possibility, and then
if it is not the case, you can rule it out and check other
possibilities.

Unrelated to the above -- I sent this message hours ago to the mailing
list, and the SMTP server at mail.netbsd.org sent me back a 450 error
because it was greylisting me, which I only noticed a few minutes ago.
I think it is moronic to greylist people who are on the netbsd-users
mailing list.  Is there any empirical reason why this is being done?

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