On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 20:42 Miroslav Skoric wrote:
>Recently I noticed a strange thing (not sure if it was documented here
>earlier). Well, whenever I try to login to my user's account into RH6.2,
>using GUI, after the password is entered, a GUI disappeared for cca half
>a second and returns back asking for username/password again (just like
>if I try to login for the first time). I don't know what might be wrong
>because when I use text login mode, everything works great. Btw, roots
>username/password (when entered wrong) don't behave like mentioned -
>they just note you that login was wrong so you should try again (but GUI
>remains intact). Any idea?
I recently had this problem as the result of an improper shutdown. I
rebooted into runlevel 3
LILO boot: linux 3
then I logged in as root and deleted all the X related user files and
directories under /tmp. Then I changed to runlevel 5:
telinit 5
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