On Sunday 05 September 2004 11:15, Eddie wrote:
I think that some configuration file has been corrupted and I hope someone can help me track it down. One day, I suddenly found that when I attempt to log in the screen goes blank and I'm returned to the login prompt. There doesn't seem to be any error messages (maybe I'm not looking in the right place). On the other hand, if I switch to runlevel 3, do a commandline login and then startx, everything works fine.
Doesn't anyone know what's going on and how I can fix it.
Try logging in, then when you're returned to the login screen, switch to a text console with ctrl-alt-f1, log in and look at the file .xsession-errors in your home directory. Hopefully that will have the error message that prevents you from logging in. Also, /var/log/kdm.log and /var/log/XFree86.0.log might have some clue