On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 17:11:45 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 00:36 Tue 25 Aug , Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > look in /tmp or /var/tmp > > > > delete related files and dirs belonging to the user and restart X. > > > > they probably killed the pc and it has some lock files around > > > > it's broken! > > I agree that there is some file that is causing the problem, but I think it > is in > /home/bill rather than in /tmp /var/tmp. I just deleted > rm -rf and thing owned my bill in those two driectories > and still no solution. > > Recall that if I change the login directory to > /home/bill/temp in /etc/passwd > then bill can startx just as any other user can. it is only > from the /home/bill that x fails (silently :()
Which filesystem is used on the partition that holds /home/bill? When did you last check it for errors? Does "smartctl -a ..." report anything suspicious about the hard drive? What do you get from stat /home/bill/ lsattr -d /home/bill/ ? -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
