First: my apologies to kmself. I guess I didn't realize I was sending to you rather than the list. I hope I haven't used up your good will. Second:
[email protected] wrote: > on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:02:08PM +0800, Tim&Pep ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm a Debian newbie. I have just used apt-get to upgrade my system and > > now I can't seem to log in at all under X. I can login on one of the > > other virtual terminals (or whatever you call that when you press > > ctrl-alt F6). What have I done? Can I fix it? Thanks. > > Describe your system, actions, and responses in more detail. > > How are you starting X? What display manager (if any) are you using? > How does it respond: login denied, X restarts, system crash? What > happens when you start X from the command line? What's in your > xsession-errors log? > Hi, okay to answer your questions, first xdm starts up upon booting. I get a login screen with spaces for user name and password. I can type in the information and the computer appears to accept the information, goes black for a second or two as though it's about to show me my desktop, and then suddenly the login screen simply reappears again. Another responder to my help request told me how to turn the xserver off from the command line and restart it. This works just fine, although I was surprised to find that fvwm95 had been replaced with afterstep for some reason. As for the .xsession-errors file, to try to answer that question, I booted once, cleaned out the file, rebooted and attempted to login as described above once and then checked .xsession-errors after login in at the command line. This is what I found there: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xrdb: Can't open display ':0' Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xrdb: Can't open display ':0' Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xrdb: Can't open display ':0' Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xmodmap: unable to open display ':0' Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user. The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running the program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the executable. xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server AfterStep: can't open display :0 It looks like Xlib is the main problem. Is it a permissions thing? Thanks very much for your help. Tim
