Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Mitchell Laks wrote:

> On 10:58 Mon 24 Aug     , Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>> her /home partition was full, she called me and said "it's broke." I
>> logged in as root and deleted the file and it was fixed.
>> --
> 
> thanks Jimmy,
> but that couldn't explain my problem,
> 
> 1. No partitions are full.
> 2. Why would the other users be able to startx just fine and this user
> cant?
> 3.  Why when I change the login directory of 'bill' from /home/bill to
> /home/bill/foo in /etc/passwd
>  does X start fine?
> 
> So can any one tell me how to make the X startup verbose so that I can
> figure what file in /home/bill is causing the problem?
> 
> Mitchell

look in /tmp or /var/tmp

delete related files and dirs belonging to the user and restart X.

they probably killed the pc and it has some lock files around

it's broken!

regards