Thank you - the machine in question is at home, so I'll look at that log later tonite and hopefully figure something out. As far as which window manager - I tried KDE, Enlightenment, and gnome, and all produced the same results. I doubt any of the other window managers would have behaved differently...
Also, I'm using XFree86 4.2.0, and my video card is a Radeon 7500 w/ 3D accel enabled. (figured I'd mention that since this problem involves X...) -Jason 4/22/2002 10:43:40 AM, Nick Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When a login fails, then its usually worth a look in >/home/<user>/.xsession-errors. This is where all the console output ends >up. Otherwise you could do a failsafe login (starts X and a terminal >only) and run startkde (I assume your using KDE?). All the output from >KDE will then appear in the terminal. Hopefully, one of these will show >you a meaningful error message... > >Nick. > >Earle Jason wrote: > >>Hello all, >> >>I have a problem adding new users to my Mandrake 8.2 box. I have tried using >>adduserdrake and userdrake, but to no avail. Every time I add a user, whenever they log >>in for the first time, it runs through the Windows Manager setup stuff, but when it >tries to >>log them in for the first time, X restarts, and I'm back to the graphical login >prompt. >> >>I'm in runlevel 5, and the new users are members of group xgrp (and wheel, but that >>shouldn't matter...) >> >>Is this an msec thing? When I first set up the box, I chose the security level just >below >>"paranoid". Am I paying the price for that choice now? >> >>Anyone who can recommend some troubleshooting steps will get 2 big thumbs up in my >>book. Aces! >> >>Thanks for the help... >> >> > > > > Jason Earle Booz | Allen | Hamilton (703) 902 4896
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