Re: Can't login... need help

[Paul Ravish <pravish@appleaid.com>]

Still no luck. I received the same error message. Here is what I did:

as root I typed /etc/init.d/gdm stop

it looked like it shutdown but then automatically restarted. But when  
I listed the processes it didn't come up.

$ps ax | grep gdm


I'm not sure what OS version I'm running. How can find out? The OS  
was installed about a month ago.

Thanks,

  --Paul


On Nov 28, 2005, at 11:37 AM, Antony Gelberg wrote:

> Paul Ravish wrote:
>
> > Hi Antony,
> >
> > I logged in as root and typed "startx". This seemed to work as it   
> > took
> > me to roots desktop.
> >
> > When I logged in as me (paul) and I typed "startx" I received the   
> > error
> > message
> >
> > xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/paul/.Xauthority
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Please don't cc me, I read the list.  Don't run X as root.
>
> I suspect the above error comes from the running gdm.  So as root,
> /etc/init.d/gdm stop.  ps ax |grep gdm to ensure that it's dead.  Then
> try the startx again.  Are you running sarge?
>
>
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