On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 23:16, Marko Djukic wrote:
> there is no /home/<user>/.xsession-errors file...
>
> i don't think it gets to the xsession to do any error logging... i see the
> terminal prompt for login for a second and then it goes blank... i don't
> even get a chance to log in...
Right, sorry I see from rereading your description.
It is presumably trying to start gdm, which it will try and do a
thousand or so times before giving up for a while.
If you uninstall gdm / kdm / xdm ("dpkg -r gdm xdm kdm") you will get
the login prompt and be able to log in, then go 'startx' to start an
Xsession.
Sorry I can't help for diagnosing problems with xdm, kdm or gdm as I
loathe them all about equally and just use startx myself :-)
Regards,
Andrew.
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