on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:52:57AM +0800, Tim&Pep (amugbmug@pacific.net.ph) wrote:
> First: my apologies to kmself. I guess I didn't realize I was sending to
>
> you rather than the list. I hope I haven't used up your good will.
Of _course_ not.
....*that* happened a long time ago....
Rick Moen's got a good primer on netiquette and why off-list followups
are considered poor form, which I subscribe to. Find it through Google.
> Second:
>
> kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> > on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:02:08PM +0800, Tim&Pep
> (amugbmug@pacific.net.ph) wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm a Debian newbie. I have just used apt-get to upgrade my system
> > > and now I can't seem to log in at all under X. I can login on one
> > > of the
>
> > > other virtual terminals (or whatever you call that when you press
> > > ctrl-alt F6). What have I done? Can I fix it? Thanks.
> >
> > Describe your system, actions, and responses in more detail.
> >
> > How are you starting X? What display manager (if any) are you
> > using? How does it respond: login denied, X restarts, system
> > crash? What happens when you start X from the command line? What's
> > in your xsession-errors log?
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> okay to answer your questions, first xdm starts up upon booting.
I recommend *strongly* against this. Particularly if it's causing
problems.
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html
> I get a login screen with spaces for user name and password.
Meaning: X starts successfully.
> I can type in the information and the computer appears to accept the
> information, goes black for a second or two as though it's about to
> show me my desktop, and then suddenly the login screen simply
> reappears again.
A problem.
> Another responder to my help request told me how to turn the xserver
> off
>
> from the command line and restart it. This works just fine, although I
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This, to me, is the majik phrase. If it works, use it. See linked
article above.
> was surprised to find that fvwm95 had been replaced with afterstep for
> some reason.
Check /etc/alternatives/x-window-mangager. For more info, man
update-alternatives.
You can also configure your system X client startup in /etc/X11/XSession
or your personal startup in ~/.xinitrc.
> As for the .xsession-errors file, to try to answer that question, I
> booted once, cleaned out the file, rebooted and attempted to login as
> described above once and then checked .xsession-errors after login in
> at the command line. This is what I found there:
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> xrdb: Can't open display ':0'
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> xrdb: Can't open display ':0'
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> xrdb: Can't open display ':0'
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> xmodmap: unable to open display ':0'
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the
> root user.
> The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely
> formatted in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message
> by running the program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit
> on the executable.
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> AfterStep: can't open display :0
>
> It looks like Xlib is the main problem. Is it a permissions thing?
Do you have an .Xauthority file?
> Thanks very much
> for your help.
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
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