login failure.
Hi there,
Got a serious and strange problem, not sure why: When I reboot the machine (laptop, HP nx9000, FC3), everything goes fine, and I get the login screen. When I type in user name and password, “nothing happens” for a long while (3 minutes), and then I'm back to the login screen. This behavior is the same for Gnome and KDE. I CAN get the failsafe console. Looking for anything suspicious in /var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0 – I see nothing. Update the system (yum update) and rebooting into the newest kernel also didn't help. Any help? I can't use the computer now! Any clue where kde keeps it error message? Or any other checks I can do? Many thanks, Yuval |
First off, I would switch to console mode. As root, type:
Code:
telinit 3 Code:
startx &> startx.log Code:
less startx.log When you fix the problem, you can use Code:
telinit 5 |
found the problem
I also found the problem:
Since the DISPLAY variable is not fully set (it shows ":0" only), I entered in /etc/profile the line: Code:
export DISPLAY=lcnpc.epfl.ch:0.0 Here is a log file: Code:
lcnpc:~ # startkde &> startkde.log Any idea what should I do in order to set the DISPLAY variable properly? (Without trashing the computer :rolleyes: ) |
You could try DISPLAY=:0.0 or DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0.
I'm guessing the first one, because then it can figure out the host to use for itself. |
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