Ron Johnson: > On 10/29/06 15:21, anthony wrote: > > > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 anthony anthony 26 2006-09-21 18:56 /home/anthony/.dmrc > > > > but the login message is the same.
Look into ~/.xsession-errors, maybe there's more info.
And BTW, my ~/.dmrc is 600:
-rw------- 1 jrschulz jrschulz 37 2006-08-09 10:46 .dmrc
Antoher possiblity: delete the file and log in again (after choosing the
session you like).
> > I am reading the debian manual on file permissions, but I don't see an
> > obvious way to reset this especially since I only have access to this
> > file as root.
Strange. It should get written by a root process (your login manager),
but be owned by you.
> > Any help much appreciated
>
> This is (one reason) why I don't like GUI login managers.
>
> If you have a boot CD, fire it up and go from there.
There's no need for that. You can still Alt-Fn to a regular console and
use that.
> And then purge xdm, gdm, kdm and log in like a Real Geek.
Real geeks may still have their terminals running under X. :)
J.
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