This one time, at band camp, David Goodenough said: > I recently upgraded a machine which had been installed as unstable but had > not been upgraded for a few weeks. Everything has upgraded cleanly, and the > machine used to work quite satisfactorily. Now when I boot the machine it > starts KDM quite happily, but then when I login using kdm it clears the screen > and then redisplays the kdm dialog. Both the kdm dialog and background appear > to be normal and there are no errors in /var/log/XFree86.log.0. This happens > whatever the user (there are 2 normal users + root on the machine). > > Login on through one of the tty consoles works just fine for all the IDs, and > exactly the same behaviour happens if I logon at the console and then issue > startx. > > I can not find any error messages anywhere, anyone got any ideas? > > David Look at ~/.xsession-errors - that's where you'll see errors in this case. If there's nothing obvious there, try moving .xsession out of the way, and trying to startx again. It sounds like X itself is working fine, just that something is bolloxing up your logins. Is this a problem for root as well? Steve -- I've run DOOM more in the last few days than I have the last few months. I just love debugging ;-) (Linus Torvalds)
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