On Wednesday 02 March 2005 23:20, Your Name wrote:
Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 6:37 am, Rikard Johnels wrote:
Can you log in at init 3 with that same user? Might be a corruption of the user account.
That is exactly what he is doing. He is booting up into run level 3,
logging
in, then running startx. He mentioned that run level 5 works fine.
Actually, he gets the login screen, but can't log in as the usual user.
Right! I have also tried gnome and it pops right back to the login screen too.
In your initial message you said you looked in every log file you knew. *What* log files did you look in? startx logs to .X.err in your home directory. Did you have a look in that file? To see if there is something in your home directory that is not owned by you, do as root: find /home/user_name ! -type l -and \( ! -user user_name -or ! -group group_name \) -exec ls -l {} \; (better use cut & paste to copy that line into a terminal window) Instead of user_name and group_name, you can use user_id and/or group_id. Cheers, Leen