<posted & mailed> Uwe Dippel wrote:
> I can't get into any of my sessions, whatever I do. > > The machine starts up and shows kdm, as it has been doing for some years. > Only, whenever I logon, as any user, or any session (kde, gnome, > xfce), it starts, then some scrambling of the screen, and back I am at > login applet. > The only one that works is Failsafe. > Therefore, it can't be a problem of a wrong password; it rather looks > like any X session started after the successful logon must have some > setting that kills X. > Unfortunately, the Xorg.log does not show anything extraordinary. > > I wonder how to debug this further ...? 1) Disable the graphical login managers (gdm/kdm etc.,). Now log in into the console prompt. Type either startx or xinit. Do you see any errors there? Does X start without any problems? 2) Is your lo interface configured properly? What is the output of ifconfig? Please post your /etc/network/interfaces. I would like to see if the lo interface is configured properly. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
