Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:43:24 -0700 charles norwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Hi. > The following line in my desktop machine's (Sarge).xsession file > caused the same message: > "xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults" [snip] Try 'xrdb -load $HOME/.Xresources' or 'xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources' instea

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-27 Thread Christoph Bier
charles norwood schrieb am 27.04.2006 05:43: > Hi. > The following line in my desktop machine's (Sarge).xsession file caused > the same message: > "xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults" There's no such line in my ~/.xsession. Meanwhile I could solve the problem (see my answer to Liam). [...] Thanks, Chri

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread charles norwood
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 09:24 +0200, Christoph Bier wrote: > Hi all, > > since yesterday I can't log into GNOME anymore. The failsafe session > works however. I get a message that the last session did last less > than 10 seconds and that there may be not enough space left on my > hard disk. There is

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Christoph Bier
Liam O'Toole schrieb am 26.04.2006 15:25: > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:55:27 +0200 > Christoph Bier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Because other users can't log in via GDM but startx with >>gnome-session in ~/.xinitrc works, I guess GDM is responsible for >>the failure. But as I wrote even installing

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Christoph Bier
Ferran Donadie schrieb am 26.04.2006 15:54: > it might have something to do with it... check my post > vnc+gdm+xinetd, I had a kernel 2.4.18 with sid and xorg, I > did sort it out, compiling a 2.6 series kernel...I might just > talking nonsense though. I run Sarge with a 2.6 vanilla kernel and XF

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Ferran Donadie
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:25:44PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:55:27 +0200 > Christoph Bier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Because other users can't log in via GDM but startx with > > gnome-session in ~/.xinitrc works, I guess GDM is responsible for > > the failure. But a

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:55:27 +0200 Christoph Bier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because other users can't log in via GDM but startx with > gnome-session in ~/.xinitrc works, I guess GDM is responsible for > the failure. But as I wrote even installing the old version of GDM > didn't change anything.

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Christoph Bier
Hello Kent, thanks for your answer! Kent West schrieb am 26.04.2006 14:14: > Christoph Bier wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>since yesterday I can't log into GNOME anymore. The failsafe session >>works however. > > I'd take GDM out of the picture myself just to simplify things > ("/etc/init.d/gdm stop"

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Christoph Bier
Hello Jon, thanks for your answer! Jon Dowland schrieb am 26.04.2006 14:11: > At 1146043481 past the epoch, Christoph Bier wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>since yesterday I can't log into GNOME anymore. The >>failsafe session works however. > > Create a temporary user. Can that user log into GNOME? I

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Kent West
Christoph Bier wrote: > Hi all, > > since yesterday I can't log into GNOME anymore. The failsafe session > works however. I'd take GDM out of the picture myself just to simplify things ("/etc/init.d/gdm stop" as root), and start X with "startx" (as normal user). You might need to create/edit ~/.xin

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1146043481 past the epoch, Christoph Bier wrote: > Hi all, > > since yesterday I can't log into GNOME anymore. The > failsafe session works however. Create a temporary user. Can that user log into GNOME? If so, there's a problem with the stuff in your $HOME (possible buried under ~/.gnome or

GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Christoph Bier
Hi all, since yesterday I can't log into GNOME anymore. The failsafe session works however. I get a message that the last session did last less than 10 seconds and that there may be not enough space left on my hard disk. There is enough space and I can't find anything special in .xsession-errors: