Well, that was wierd.
I experimented with every possible thing, and finally, i moved my .xsession file out of the way and that did it. It was a new file, but it contained only the line "xset b 0", and I dont know why this would cause the entire start to crash. But i seem to be back in business! Jen ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <bg271...@yahoo.com> > To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Cc: > Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 7:19 PM > Subject: Help! Can't log in as self > > Im running Xfce4 on Debian testing. I recently rebooted the machine, and i > didnt > intentionally make any changes > to anything that i think would be relevant. On reboot, I was not able to log > in > as my usual user; i get to the Xfce > "Welcome to [machine name]" screen, and enter my username/password, > and it hangs for a sec and returns. > > Logging in as root i tried to reset the password of this account, but it had > no > effect. I created a test user, and this user > WAS able to log in. > > I cant find anything useful in the logs. There's nothing in > /var/log/messages that seems relevant. In auth.log > i just see three lines, "pam_unix(xdm:session): session opened for user > [foo] by [foo](uid=0)", something from > pam_cd_connector, and then "pam_unix(xdm:session): session closed for user > [foo]". The only thing is that user > [foo] is uid=1000, not uid=0, but the test user had the same thing, so this > can't be it. There's nothing that seems > relevant in xdm.log. > > What might this be, and where can I look? > > Thanks! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/1318029563.18976.yahoomail...@web161302.mail.bf1.yahoo.com > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1318037862.70692.yahoomail...@web161313.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
