Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 10:58 Mon 24 Aug , Jimmy Johnson wrote: >> her /home partition was full, she called me and said "it's broke." I >> logged in as root and deleted the file and it was fixed. >> -- > > thanks Jimmy, > but that couldn't explain my problem, > > 1. No partitions are full. > 2. Why would the other users be able to startx just fine and this user > cant? > 3. Why when I change the login directory of 'bill' from /home/bill to > /home/bill/foo in /etc/passwd > does X start fine? > > So can any one tell me how to make the X startup verbose so that I can > figure what file in /home/bill is causing the problem? > > Mitchell
look in /tmp or /var/tmp delete related files and dirs belonging to the user and restart X. they probably killed the pc and it has some lock files around it's broken! regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
