On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 04:30:22PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > Booting gets to a screen (after a pause and some horizontal lines. > The screen eventually appears normal and the kdm login appears, > looking normal. The mouse works, so I can opt for user or root, and > the keyboard allows me to enter the passwords. Pressing 'enter', > however, doesn't launch kde, it merely loops back to an empty login > screen. If I enter a console and run 'startx', this fails with a > error message saying 'server running - remove lock file etc'. But > there's no lock file in /tmp to remove.
What does "ls -la /tmp" return? When X loops back the login manager, there is normally an error listed in the ~/.xsession-errors for the user that can't log in. Does this file contain anything? -- Jamin W. Collins This is the typical unix way of doing things: you string together lots of very specific tools to accomplish larger tasks. -- Vineet Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
