Re: Normal users can't login..

[Ray Dougharty <rayd@mindless.com>]

Can you log in to a console as a regular user and then run "startx". 
Maybe this would give some information if it does not work.

Ray

Corey Kovacs wrote:

> Ray, thanks for the suggestion, however I looked at that first as I am on a
> space deprived system to begin with. Any other ideas?
>
> Corey
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> Ray Dougharty wrote:
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> > I had a problem once with the same symptoms. My disk space was too low
> > to allow users to log in.
> > Root has a certain percentage of disk space reserved for such
> > situations, to allow you to log in and free up space.
> > You could run "apt-get clean" to clear out your package cache, if you
> > don't mind deleting all of the programs that you have downloaded.
> >
> > Ray
> >
> > Corey Kovacs wrote:
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> >
> > > After upgrading to Karolina's rc5 packages last week, I've had a problem which
> > > is preventing normal users from logging in. Root can login just fine, but if
> > > my normal user id is used, then things pause for roughly 20 seconds, then
> > > ksplash comes up the the "Setting up Interprocess communications" message and
> > > then sits there for another 20-30 seconds, then falls back to the login
> > > screen.  I've watched/checked all the log files that apply, but nothing is
> > > revealed. I'd like to get this resolved soon. Is/has anyone been dealing with
> > > this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I've even reverted back
> > > to Karolina's qt packages to no avail...
> > >
> > >
> > > Corey
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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