Re: user x login fails

[tadek@telus.net (Tadek)]

Hi Kent,
Thank you for quick reply. My answers are embedded.
Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote in message news:<29348-JG-1@gated-at.bofh.it>...
> Tadek wrote:
> 
> >(sorry for double posting but my initial post in lists.debian.org was
> >rejected since I had to
> >subscribe first and after I did 2nd email address was given to me for
> >posting)
> >
> >Dear friends,
> >
> >I encountered following problem (using debian sarge):
> >- after installing k3b (apt-get), opera (dpkg from opera for sarge)
> >and adobe reader in this order, I can not x login as ordinary user; I
> >can still X login as a root; kde and gnome behave the same. When I
> >enter user name and password in x client login dialog, screen blanks
> >for second or two, X grey screen appears with X cursor and login
> >dialog appears again.
> >
> >- in addition if I after successful login as root and starting kde session,
> >I cannot close kde shell konsole; windows stays on but shell console is
> >dead;
> >
> >
> >I tried:
> >- removed file /home/xxx/.kde
> >- removed k3b and opera
> >- upgraded installed packages
> >- reinstalled k3b and opera
> >
> >I am relatively new to linux and very new to debian distribution.  Any help
> >and/or pointers will be
> >appreciated.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Tad
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Shell out of the graphical login manager (Ctrl-Alt-F2 should do it) and 
> log in as a normal user there. Then shut down your login manager (with 
> something like "sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop", replacing "sudo" with 
> whatever method you use to perform this function as root, and replacing 
> "kdm" with the name of whatever login manager you're using, almost 
> certainly kdm, wdm, gdm or xdm). Then try starting X with "startx" (as 
> the normal user).
Error output:

/usr/bin/X11/startx: line 132: cannot create temp file for here
document: Permission denied
/usr/bin/X11/startx: line 132: cannot create temp file for here
document: Permission denied

X: unable to open wrapper config file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
giving up.
xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X
server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  unexpected signal 2.

> 
> Does it work?
> Yes - then something's wrong with the login manager's setup.
> No - then try creating a "~/.xinitrc" file and putting the single line 
> of "icewm" in it, and make sure icewm is installed (sudo apt-get install 
> icewm). Now try "startx".

Doesn't work. Same error output as above.  BTW what does icewm do?
> 
> Does it work?
> Yes - then something is wrong with your normal window manager / desktop 
> environment (KDE)?
> No - then something's wrong with X itself.
> 
I noticed earlier that Xwrapper.config was missing (I found posted
message with reference to this file).

> Let us know the results, and we'll go from there.
> 
> -- 
> Kent