Hello I had the same problem, though the "looping" eventually lead to total freezing of X.
It appeared when I had installed mozilla M17-3 from woody. (My system is still mostly potato.) First time I solved it installing gdm again. Then I tried mozilla again, crash, and I had to install helixgnome which works fine now. I have no idea why this happens. - Esko On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 12:14:48AM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > I am messing around with debian 2.2 in a VMware window in my win2k box, > so it is all in vga mode and that is cool with me. i do have a weird > problem going on though... > > when i install a window manager (xdm, gdm, etc.): > > it prompts me for user/pass at boot. > I enter it. > it prompts me for user/pass > I enter it > it prompts me for user pass > . > . > . > > you get the idea, it loops. this happens regardless of root or my > account. I have no clue what would cause this to happen. I can usually > do a ctrl-alt-backspace and a quick alt-f2 that will get me to another > text box and let me reboot or uninstall the package, but it sucks that i > can't use a window manager
