Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-22 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:47:46PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I can't get into any of my sessions, whatever I do. Make sure all your mount points are properly mounted. I recently had an experience where /tmp wasn't being mounted, and so the X11 sockets weren't being created. -- Oh,

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-16 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
posted mailed Uwe Dippel wrote: I can't get into any of my sessions, whatever I do. The machine starts up and shows kdm, as it has been doing for some years. Only, whenever I logon, as any user, or any session (kde, gnome, xfce), it starts, then some scrambling of the screen, and back I

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-15 Thread John Allen
Uwe Dippel wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Andrew Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how to debug this further ...? If you are logging in successfully, then error messages are being sent to the .xsession-errors file in your home directory -- check there for more clues.

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-15 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:35 PM, John Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now switch to the X display (Alt+F8 probably) move cursor to the xterm, and # /usr/bin/startxfce4 now see what happens. Now, no, I think I should change the subject or start a new thread? It seems my install simply fails

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-15 Thread Kent West
Uwe Dippel wrote: It seems my install simply fails me completely now. I had to do some repair when booting a few days back, then it worked and now the repair tends to come up at boot, again. But even if it doesn't, it is not okay. Unfortunately, all messages flash by too quickly, and don't show

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-15 Thread Andrew Reid
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 22:46, Uwe Dippel wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Andrew Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how to debug this further ...? If you are logging in successfully, then error messages are being sent to the .xsession-errors file in your home directory --

X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Dippel
I can't get into any of my sessions, whatever I do. The machine starts up and shows kdm, as it has been doing for some years. Only, whenever I logon, as any user, or any session (kde, gnome, xfce), it starts, then some scrambling of the screen, and back I am at login applet. The only one that

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Uwe Dippel wrote: I can't get into any of my sessions, whatever I do. The machine starts up and shows kdm, as it has been doing for some years. Only, whenever I logon, as any user, or any session (kde, gnome, xfce), it starts, then some scrambling of the screen, and back I am at login applet.

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-14 Thread Andrew Reid
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 07:47, Uwe Dippel wrote: I can't get into any of my sessions, whatever I do. The machine starts up and shows kdm, as it has been doing for some years. Only, whenever I logon, as any user, or any session (kde, gnome, xfce), it starts, then some scrambling of the

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Andrew Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how to debug this further ...? If you are logging in successfully, then error messages are being sent to the .xsession-errors file in your home directory -- check there for more clues. It is empty: % ls -ltra