--- Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED]
However, after moving the file to somewhere else, the same thing
happened, that strange error msg, and something about failsafe
sessions. I have no clue how to launch such a 'failsafe session'
under gentoo / gnome / gdm, if there are any.
On the gdm
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 03:13:26 -0500 (EST), DB Wong wrote:
On the gdm greeter screen (the gdm login) there should be icons for Language,
Session, System, Quit. If you have these, click on the sessions icon and
choose the failsafe session.
Oh dear... i just found out that the login screen is
Hi everyone,
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 03:54:17AM +0100, Oliver Lange wrote:
Due to some reason i can no longer login (X);
the login manager says my session lasted no
longer than 10 seconds, talking about missing
logoff or system installation problem.
Login doesn't work either with root or
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On Sunday 09 November 2003 06:54 pm, Oliver Lange wrote:
Hello everyone,
Due to some reason i can no longer login (X);
the login manager says my session lasted no
longer than 10 seconds, talking about missing
logoff or system installation
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 19:02:58 -0800, Matt Chorman wrote:
If you can't login as root I doubt it's a configuration problem - then again,
root probably isn't allowed to login to X (unless you configured it that
way.)
What DE are you trying to open? KDE, Gnome? Check the error logs...
Gnome/gdm
--- Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003
Gnome/gdm
Addendum: i can create a new user and login with that account,
but not as root or using my standard user account.
A relogin with the new dummy account was also successful.
Any attempt to use root or my user accound
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 00:26:15 -0500 (EST), DB Wong wrote:
session lasts less than 10 sek. errmsg.
Have you tried deleting the file session under .gnome2 in the root/standard
user account? If you do this, you'll start the original default session.
Well i didn't know what this file exactly
