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Re: [SLE] [Not-SOLVED] init 5 hangs, must start k w/startx ??
  • From: Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 20:48:51 -0500
  • Message-id: <20040704014851.GA23198@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx> [07-03-04 18:59]:
> On Sunday 04 July 2004 01.48, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > It did or I do not understand. I disabled autologin and then the
> > welcome screen splashed and the login prompt. Enter name, passwd and
> > then <enter> and mouse will move but no other action..
>
> OK, so you get that far. In your earlier mail you said it hung at the welcome
> screen, suggesting that you didn't even see the login window

for autologin.

> Does it work in xfce?

No. I tried xfce and kde / and kdm and xdm

> Or a window manager you've never used before?

I had never used xfce

> Have you tried something like "chown -R pat.users /home/pat" ?

Just did. sameo, sameo

Then removed (mv) ~/.kde but X still hangs after I hit the <enter> key
after name/password on login screen. I tried 4 different previously
unused window managers with same result.

The <test-user> I created can login (after init 5) to kde, gnome, and
xfce and out and in w/o a problem.

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