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You can look into errors after unsuccessful login and switching to console by CTRL+ALT+F1 with:
Code:
cat ~/.xsession-errors
Paste output here.
As the last resort you can remove "skim" by
Code:
sudo apt-get remove skim
I had this behavior when has no free hard disk space left on home partition.
got this after executing the first command
Xsession: X session started for kevin at Sat Apr 16 20:33:35 IST 2011
Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US.
Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default.
Smart Common Input Method 1.4.9
Launching a SCIM daemon with Socket FrontEnd...
Loading simple Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Loading socket FrontEnd module ...
Starting SCIM as daemon ...
Launching a SCIM process with x11...
Loading socket Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Loading x11 FrontEnd module ...
GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.9
Starting SCIM as daemon ...
SCIM has been successfully launched.
/home/kevin/.xsession: 4: kde-session: not found
Ok, I guess you are using either Ubuntu or Linux Mint or some debian flavour of Linux. Let us know which Linux you are using. And let us know the output of the following commands:
1. cat /var/log/dmesg
From what you are saying it appears that when you are putting your username and password on the GUI screen it is not getting parsed.
You can give a try the following steps:
1. Login to server using any tty with root account.
2. Change the root password.
3. Restart the system.
4. Give a try to login.
You can look up the permissions by opening a terminal CTRL-ALT-F1 and give this command: ls -l / and check the first column of the listing for the /tmp directory.
Ok, I guess you are using either Ubuntu or Linux Mint or some debian flavour of Linux. Let us know which Linux you are using. And let us know the output of the following commands:
1. cat /var/log/dmesg
From what you are saying it appears that when you are putting your username and password on the GUI screen it is not getting parsed.
You can give a try the following steps:
1. Login to server using any tty with root account.
2. Change the root password.
3. Restart the system.
4. Give a try to login.
I got this output after executing the command cat /var/log/dmesg
Ok, I guess you are using either Ubuntu or Linux Mint or some debian flavour of Linux. Let us know which Linux you are using. And let us know the output of the following commands:
1. cat /var/log/dmesg
From what you are saying it appears that when you are putting your username and password on the GUI screen it is not getting parsed.
You can give a try the following steps:
1. Login to server using any tty with root account.
2. Change the root password.
3. Restart the system.
4. Give a try to login.
for the changing the password
i chaged the password it got changed and i rebooted and again the same problem
At login screen on the bottom there should be a box that says session
click on it and select failsafe, you should be able to login.
At that point you can disable some of the running processes that are hogging memory.
I found that with my older machines I had to remove compiz.
Although compiz is a good program & I like the effects.
Remove it & if that's not the problem you can reinstall.
I am new to this forum. Today morning I installed "skim" program which i used for chinese input. when my sytem was restarted for the second time, it went inside but the GUI login screen reappears even after giving the correct password!
Pls help
thank you
I have a couple of questions here:
1. Is this a new install?
2. Were you able to login to GUI before.
3. Which account were you using to login to GUI (If it was working).
4. Did your GUI login stop working after installing skim or it was the same case before.
Also let us know the output of cat /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc
1. Is this a new install?
2. Were you able to login to GUI before.
3. Which account were you using to login to GUI (If it was working).
4. Did your GUI login stop working after installing skim or it was the same case before.
Also let us know the output of cat /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc
No It is not a new install! I installed ibus and skim intially and uninstalled both and finally installed Skim after that this problem occured. I was able to go inside using GUI login
You can look up the permissions by opening a terminal CTRL-ALT-F1 and give this command: ls -l / and check the first column of the listing for the /tmp directory.
jlinkels
Hey mate i tried changing the persion for the directory /tmp as given in that link which you have posted but no effect!!!!!
At login screen on the bottom there should be a box that says session
click on it and select failsafe, you should be able to login.
At that point you can disable some of the running processes that are hogging memory.
I found that with my older machines I had to remove compiz.
Although compiz is a good program & I like the effects.
Remove it & if that's not the problem you can reinstall.
Even if I choose Failsafe mood it is not going inside!!
1. Is this a new install?
2. Were you able to login to GUI before.
3. Which account were you using to login to GUI (If it was working).
4. Did your GUI login stop working after installing skim or it was the same case before.
Also let us know the output of cat /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc
here is the out for the command cat /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc
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