Hi Penguins.
I am posting this hoping it helps somebody.
With my Debian penguin, I screwed up NVIDIA driver. (I was installing 1.0-8762, hoping it would be faster or fancier.... than 1.0-7174) This attempt resulted in major disaster. (totally dead penguin)
After several fsck sessions. I re-installed 7174 again. With root, gnome kicked in OK. However, xfce does not kick in at user level. (startup screen comes up, then everything blacks out)
Code:
startx >& errorlog &
deteted
Code:
** ERROR **: fvwm4: Segmentation fault
aborting...
so that I reinstalled fvwm4, which did not change anything.
One line above,
Code:
iceauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/user/.ICEauthority
Removing .ICEauthority solved everything.