[TriLUG] log in issues

[Douglas A. Whitfield]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Lance A. Brown <lance at bearcircle.net>
wrote:

> This usually means the ownership of the .Xauthority file in the home
> directory of the user you are trying to login as is wrong.  Usually it
> gets flipped to root somehow.  Check and make sure the user owns that file.
>
> --[Lance]


I'm really at a loss.  It doesn't appear to be a GNOME issue like I was
thinking it might be, since KDE won't work either (oddly enough, wireless
doesn't appear to work in KDE...) I've started a thread at Ubuntu Forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5229018

Among other things, on the forum thread I note that I changed the
.Xauthority file to chmod 777, so it's not a permission issue there...but it
seems like there's some sort of permission issue somewhere.  Ugh.