|> okay to answer your questions, first xdm starts up upon booting. I |> get a login screen with spaces for user name and password. I can |> type in the information and the computer appears to accept the |> information, goes black for a second or two as though it's about to |> show me my desktop, and then suddenly the login screen simply |> reappears again.
There's a user here who has an identical problem. In her case, it arose only after an upgrade against proposed-updates and security, Jim