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Re: unknown problem



On Tuesday 09 October 2001 17:58, Toomas Vananurm wrote:

> I can't figure it out where is the problem with my graphical desktop. kdm
> starts and the login screen appears. But if I login, the kdm just
> restarts. Log-files are not indicating any errors (or I just can't find
> them). I can "use" X by selectin safe mode from kdm-login. Before the
> problem appeared I did 2 things:
> 1) compiled i2c and apm support to kernel. (seems not to be the problem)
> 2) made apt-get update upgrade
> It was yesterday afternoon. I use Debian unstable with 2.4.10
>  and Athlon1G , AJA2 m/b

There's a bug in XFree86 4.1.0-7: Edit 

  /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start

and change the line

  exec "$REALSTARTUP"

into

  exec $REALSTARTUP

This should solve your problem.

Frank
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Frank Mehnert
## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ##
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