Cannot open X session
 

Dell Inspiron 8200 - Mandrake 9.2 - XIG Summit Graphic Driver. Setup working fine for a few months.

1. Last modification: yesterday night upgrade XCdroast
2. This morning: can't open an X session either in KDE (default) or GNOME. Load on splash screen in order to enter username and password - enter both and I come back to the splash screen.
3. On consol : username and password recognized.
4. Reinstalled Graphic Driver (in case).
5. startkde gives :
xset: unable to open display ""
xset: unable to open display ""
xset: unable to open display ""
xsetroot: unable to open display ''
xmodmap: unable to open display ''
xmodmap: unable to open display ''
startkde: Starting up...
ksplash: cannot connect to X server
kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY not set.
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
kdmserver: cannot connect to X server
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
Error: Can't connect kdeinit!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.

Looked on Google have seen same messages but no solution.

Some help would be appreciated. Thanks.

startkde won't work. Use
startx
from text mode.

I have the same problem and I also updated xcdroast right before that happened. It was only one of the numerous updates I did though, so I'm not sure if it's THE one...

"startx" won't work either, I still get the "$DISPLAY not set" error message, amongst others.

I tried reconfiguring with xf86config to no avail...

Please help me get back into my system!

Any help is welcome!!!

In my case permissions on /etc/X11/Xsession were changed. I had to change them.

Goog luck!

Thank you spid, I will check that out...

:newbie: May I ask what the correct permissions are?