[TriLUG] log in issues

[Matthew Pusateri]

Seems to me when I ran into these issues, that I logged in as root at  
a non-gui shell prompt IE alt-f 1.  Then looked in /tmp and removed  
the temporary X files for your user.  Then restarted GDM, Kill -HUP  
gdm  then I could log into the gui

Matt P.

On Jun 20, 2008, at 8:01 PM, Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:

> 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.
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