Hi all!

I just installed the lastest version of the Alsa drivers for my Knoppix HD install system (v. 3.3) and now I am unable to login using any non-root account that I have.

When logging on as the default Knoppix user and entering in my password, the screen goes black then returns to the login screen.

I tried creating a new user account with the same group memberships, but I get the same results.

As far as the steps I used to install the Alsa drivers, I used the steps at the following link.

The only thing I can think of that might have made any kind of difference is the following command:

I built the drivers and libs using my knoppix account while su'd into root.

If anyone has any advice, or needs additional info on how to resolve this issue, please let me know.

Thanks for your time!

sax

It would appear that the X server refuses to start when run as a non root user. Try going into console mode (runlevel 3 i.e. "telinit 3") and try running startx manually as both a root and non-root user. The error messages displayed should tell you more about what the actual problem is.

Thanks for the reply nhs!

When I switch to the non-x environment and login as a non-root users and issue the startx command, I get the following error message:

If you or anyone else has any idea how to fix this, please let me know.

Thanks!

sax

This is claiming two things. Firstly it says the partition with /home on it is full. Check this with "df -h". The server also claims that it is already running. Check the output of "ps -A" and look for anything which looks like the X server. If it isn't running (as I suspect) then just delete /tmp/.X0-lock and see whether that makes any difference. As the problem goes away when you log in as root you may also want to check the permissions of /tmp (should be 1777 i.e. read-write-executable by all and sticky bit set).

My personal hunch is that the lack of disk space is the real problem as root's .Xauthority file doesn't live in /home (rather in /root) and as such won't be affected by the space remaining in /home (assuming of course that /home is on a separate partition). Otherwise the root X server may have failed to delete the .X0-lock file at some time thereby preventing the X server from overwriting is except when run as root.

Thanks nhs!

You were right that the issue was due to the disk being full. I am doing some test of other distros right now and am taking another run at Gentoo to see if I can get it to work.

I appreciate your time and thank you for the reply!

Take care!

sax