On Tuesday 01 March 2005 18:27, Your Name wrote:

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I was doing some maintenance on my home network and logged out of my normal user, then did a reboot. After the reboot, I go up to init 3 (which is normal on this box). After logging in as that user, startx blanks the screen for a few seconds then pops back to the command line. There are no warnings or errors displayed or in any log files that I've checked.

If I login as root and do "init 5", I get the graphical login screen. Trying to login as my normal user pops right back to that screen too.

I can login as other users.

Has anyone seen this before?

Can you log in this user at the command line? If so, go to runlevel 5 and try to log in this user using a different window manager. If these are all local users and only 1 doesn't log in correctly, then it sounds like the window configuration file for that user got corrupted somehow.

Jeff

I did try gnome as well as KDE. I can log in at the command line, it's just "startx" that fails and returns me to the command line, with no errors shown. Other users work fine. Thanks, Jim