Hi Kent, Thank you for quick reply. My answers are embedded. Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Tadek wrote: > > >(sorry for double posting but my initial post in lists.debian.org was > >rejected since I had to > >subscribe first and after I did 2nd email address was given to me for > >posting) > > > >Dear friends, > > > >I encountered following problem (using debian sarge): > >- after installing k3b (apt-get), opera (dpkg from opera for sarge) > >and adobe reader in this order, I can not x login as ordinary user; I > >can still X login as a root; kde and gnome behave the same. When I > >enter user name and password in x client login dialog, screen blanks > >for second or two, X grey screen appears with X cursor and login > >dialog appears again. > > > >- in addition if I after successful login as root and starting kde session, > >I cannot close kde shell konsole; windows stays on but shell console is > >dead; > > > > > >I tried: > >- removed file /home/xxx/.kde > >- removed k3b and opera > >- upgraded installed packages > >- reinstalled k3b and opera > > > >I am relatively new to linux and very new to debian distribution. Any help > >and/or pointers will be > >appreciated. > > > >Regards, > >Tad > > > > > > > > > Shell out of the graphical login manager (Ctrl-Alt-F2 should do it) and > log in as a normal user there. Then shut down your login manager (with > something like "sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop", replacing "sudo" with > whatever method you use to perform this function as root, and replacing > "kdm" with the name of whatever login manager you're using, almost > certainly kdm, wdm, gdm or xdm). Then try starting X with "startx" (as > the normal user). Error output:
/usr/bin/X11/startx: line 132: cannot create temp file for here document: Permission denied /usr/bin/X11/startx: line 132: cannot create temp file for here document: Permission denied X: unable to open wrapper config file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): unexpected signal 2. > > Does it work? > Yes - then something's wrong with the login manager's setup. > No - then try creating a "~/.xinitrc" file and putting the single line > of "icewm" in it, and make sure icewm is installed (sudo apt-get install > icewm). Now try "startx". Doesn't work. Same error output as above. BTW what does icewm do? > > Does it work? > Yes - then something is wrong with your normal window manager / desktop > environment (KDE)? > No - then something's wrong with X itself. > I noticed earlier that Xwrapper.config was missing (I found posted message with reference to this file). > Let us know the results, and we'll go from there. > > -- > Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
