Help!!!

gbrad · 09-18-2002, 10:06 AM

Every time I try to login with an user ID besides root the screen flashes and then reverts back to GDM. What is going on? I just went to sleep last night, woke up, and now I have this problem. Does anyone know what is happening?

jetblackz · 09-18-2002, 10:32 AM

Could be corrupted user files. Back up files. Delete account & folder. Recreate account. Put files back.

NSKL · 09-18-2002, 11:51 AM

no, i think the problem is in /home/user/.xinitrc or whatever script calls on your window manager. It looks like the script can not find your window manager, so it logs you in, and then since there is no WM logs you out right away again. I dunno what script calls on the WM in RH, but try to change your WM to something else to see if that helps, or log in in text mode and start the server with startx command.
HTH
-NSKL

bubba169 · 09-18-2002, 03:07 PM

At the login is there a place to select WM default, KDE, Gnome, etc. If so try chaning window manager to something besides default one. Then look around to find the problem.

Bubba169

gbrad · 09-18-2002, 03:57 PM

It was the .xinitrc file. Thanks for the help. Everything is back to normal now.

mrGee · 09-18-2002, 04:01 PM

i had this once after putting hackedbox on my system.
It turned out to be a permission issue, in my
/var/log/messages;

gdmlogin[2337]: Wrong permissions on /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions//Hackedbox. Should be readable/executable for all.
regards

--ah solved already, slow typing etc etc.---