Hi Paul!
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:21:12AM -0500, Paul Ravish wrote:
> Hi Ivan,
>
> My responses below
>
> On Nov 28, 2005, at 11:00 AM, Ivan Glushkov wrote:
>
> >Paul Ravish wrote:
> >
> >>Hi All,
> >>I'm kinda a newbie to Linux, and I think messed something up. I
> >>can't login through t
Paul, you must make sure that X is not running on an other console if you
want to use startx.
the suggestion to run startx is very reasonable: this way you
will see where it stops. if you don't manage to stop gdm/kdm/xdm, you can
do two things I believe:
switch to an other runlevel (you do this
Hi Kent,
The results of ls -l /home is 3 directories named joe, lost+found,
and paul
On my directory the owner and group settings looked odd. They weren't
paul:paul like they should be they were numbers.
So I did a chown paul:paul paul at the prompt
then i did a startx this logged me in
Hi Kent,
Same thing happened.
As root I typed /etc/init.d/gdm stop and it immediately look like it
restarted
When I tried ps ax | grep [xgkw]dm it didn't show anything.
Since you said that that was impossible, I tried rebooting and
rerunning the instructions.
But first, before typing th
Paul Ravish wrote:
Hi Kent,
I received the same error message when I removed .Xauthority.
However, towards the end of he process it said that couldn't find
.Xauthority
What's the result of "ls -l /home"?
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Paul Ravish wrote:
Still no luck. I received the same error message. Here is what I did:
as root I typed /etc/init.d/gdm stop
it looked like it shutdown but then automatically restarted. But when
I listed the processes it didn't come up.
$ps ax | grep gdm
What you've described is an impos
Still no luck. I received the same error message. Here is what I did:
as root I typed /etc/init.d/gdm stop
it looked like it shutdown but then automatically restarted. But when
I listed the processes it didn't come up.
$ps ax | grep gdm
I'm not sure what OS version I'm running. How can fin
Hi Kent,
I received the same error message when I removed .Xauthority.
However, towards the end of he process it said that couldn't
find .Xauthority
Thanks,
--Paul
On Nov 28, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Kent West wrote:
Paul Ravish wrote:
Hi Antony,
I logged in as root and typed "startx". T
Paul Ravish wrote:
> Hi Antony,
>
> I logged in as root and typed "startx". This seemed to work as it took
> me to roots desktop.
>
> When I logged in as me (paul) and I typed "startx" I received the error
> message
>
> xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/paul/.Xauthority
>
> Any i
Paul Ravish wrote:
Hi Antony,
I logged in as root and typed "startx". This seemed to work as it
took me to roots desktop.
When I logged in as me (paul) and I typed "startx" I received the
error message
xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/paul/.Xauthority
"rm /home/paul/.Xau
Hi Antony,
I logged in as root and typed "startx". This seemed to work as it
took me to roots desktop.
When I logged in as me (paul) and I typed "startx" I received the
error message
xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/paul/.Xauthority
Any ideas?
Thanks,
--Paul
On Nov 28,
Hi Ivan,
My responses below
On Nov 28, 2005, at 11:00 AM, Ivan Glushkov wrote:
Paul Ravish wrote:
Hi All,
I'm kinda a newbie to Linux, and I think messed something up. I
can't login through the gnome desktop manager anymore. I used to
be able to login and I can login under a different
Paul Ravish wrote:
Hi All,
I'm kinda a newbie to Linux, and I think messed something up. I can't
login through the gnome desktop manager anymore. I used to be able to
login and I can login under a different account on the system. I do
have several error log files, but I don't really know w
Hi All,
I'm kinda a newbie to Linux, and I think messed something up. I can't
login through the gnome desktop manager anymore. I used to be able to
login and I can login under a different account on the system. I do
have several error log files, but I don't really know where to start
in f
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