On 10/2/07, Richard Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, > > Thanks for your help. Here is what happened. > > If I login as robin the mail contains 137 messages all saying that backup21 > needs to have a file configured. I don't use that program anymore so those > aren't interesting. When I login as root there aren't any messages. > > I tried to login to TWN, Twn and Failsafe from the display manager (?) > screen but in each case it just returns to itself. > > I found xsession-erriors: it's empty. > > I can't find a file named .xinitrc in / or in /home/robin > > There are two other things which may be helpful. First, when I'm logged in > a console if I don't type anything for a short time lines beginning with > "DROPPED IN=eth0 OUT=MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff: " appear many times on the > screen. This happens both when I'm logged in as root and as robin. Second, > I have tar balls of /etc, /usr/local and /var (minus /var/cache, var/spool, > /var/tmp) created just before the problem arose. But the tar ball of robin > was created after the problem began when I found I could log in and use > gnome. > > I would appreciate any help. > > Robin
if .xinitrc existed for the root user, it would be in /root/.xinitrc, not /.xinitrc. That isn't too important anyway, since apparently debian does not use it. Normally, .xinitrc would be the file that says what programs are run when X starts up (i.e. it would start up kde or gnome.) The lines on the console are just there because you are probably logged in to the console that messages are being dumped to. "DROPPED IN=eth0 OUT=MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff: " is probably just something that the computer thinks you are interested in. Did you log in as your user and run startx yet? If so, what was the output? -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
