Mark, Thanks for your email. I just logged in as user and ran startx. There was a very brief flash of blue then the screen returned to black with a message indicating that the log file used was /var/log/Xorg.0.log and that the config file used was /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Some other lines followed that don't seem to be of much interest. Then the last 2 lines indicated that the kernel had disabled IRQ #201 and that "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc refcount is 2, should be 1' fixing'.
Does this help? Robin On 10/2/07, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 >
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