On Wednesday 14 May 2008 07:47, Uwe Dippel wrote: > I can't get into any of my sessions, whatever I do. > > The machine starts up and shows kdm, as it has been doing for some years. > Only, whenever I logon, as any user, or any session (kde, gnome, > xfce), it starts, then some scrambling of the screen, and back I am at > login applet. > The only one that works is Failsafe. > Therefore, it can't be a problem of a wrong password; it rather looks > like any X session started after the successful logon must have some > setting that kills X. > Unfortunately, the Xorg.log does not show anything extraordinary. > > I wonder how to debug this further ...?
If you are logging in successfully, then error messages are being sent to the ".xsession-errors" file in your home directory -- check there for more clues. Also, the default start-up runs the ".xsession" file in your home directory, if it exists and has appropriate permissions. Try removing/renaming that. -- A. > Please, Cc: to me in case of answers; due to the traffic on this list Gotcha, although I nearly missed this. -- A, again. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]