Hi Andrew, This happened to me before; likely, there will be files like .ICEauthority in your home directory which are owned by root rather than yourself. Change the ownership back to yourself and you should be good to log in.
cheers, MARKUS On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, a park wrote: > i managed to setup gdm so that it appears when i fire up my desktop, but it > will not allow me to login to it with another user other than root. it is > not an authentication problem. it gives me the "the session lasted less > than ten seconds..." error message. is there a place to set permissions for > non-root users to use gdm / x. btw, i added the name of the machine (in > this case "flanker") to the /etc/hosts as (127.0.0.1) because i use dhcp. > > andrew > > _________________________________________________________________ > High-speed Internet access as low as $29.95/month (depending on the local > service providers in your area). Click here. https://broadband.msn.com > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
