> > I stuck my neck out and upgraded X11 to the packages in slink. Just > previous to that I had upgraded wmaker to 0.19.1-1, also new on slink. > At first, wmaker crashed the session. I purged wmaker. > > Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, xdm starts but when a user logs > in, the session crashes. Root can log in ok. Root can use startx, > but a user cannot. > > Looks like permissions. Permissions of WHAT? > > I now downgraded back to the X11 packages in hamm, but the same > problem persists. > > I still don't understand what wmaker did. I upgraded the libraries, > and installed wmaker libs too. That's one of the last things I did > before this happened.
I'm not quite sure about this, but: a) do you now have no wmaker at all? b) is your x config such that it tries to launch wmaker If both of these are yes, then that is the problem. Install wmaker again (hamm version), or change ? /etc/Xsession or .xsession to fire up something else HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
