Re: X/Gnome won't start properly
I had this problem a few weeks ago. I also could not login as any user
by any means, however I could login as root. After about a week and a
few responses to my post here I gave up, backed up all home directories
and reinstalled woody. I would love to know what happened and how to
fix it.
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 18:13, John Lord wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 April 2002 5:06 pm, Nick Hall wrote:
> > I'm running XFree86 4.1.0.1 and Gnome. A couple days ago I did
> > apt-get upgrade (I was running testing) and it upgraded some
> > packages. The next day when I started my computer it started
> > into X and the username/password box came up, but after I
> > typed in my info the screen went black for a fraction of
> > a second and then returned to the username/pass prompt. If I
> > type in an incorrect password it doesn't go black and
> > immediately gives the incorrect login message so it looks
> > like the problem is that after it has verified the login
> > is correct, it tries to run whatever component of X or
> > Gnome that is supposed to and that is failing. I don't see
> > any errors in either /var/log/xdm.log or /var/log/XFree86.0.log.
> > Yesterday I dist-upgraded to unstable to see if any upgrades
> > of packages would fix the problem but they didn't. Does anyone
> > have any suggestions? Like where I should look to debug this?
> > If I saw where the problem lied in a log file I could begin
> > to figure out how to fix it, but as is, I have no idea what
> > the problem is, whether its in X or Gnome. Thanks a lot for
> > any help,
> >
> > Nick
>
>
> I don't know if this will fix it, but check that you havn't run out of space
> on the partition. I have had this after upgrading, because I had simple
> filled up the hd, and the logs (i presume) couldn't be written.
>
> Once freeing up some space all worked again :-)
>
>
> --
> Cheers.... John
>
> Amiga A1200 PPC running Linux/Apus Debian and KDE2.*
> Web site http://www.lordofchaos.co.uk
>
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