[TriLUG] log in issues

[Owen Berry]

Tried just running X, without Gnome or KDE?

Is the .Xauthority permissions thing not a case of your file having too
much authorization granted to other users? For me:

$ ls -l .Xauthority 
-rw------- 1 oberry oberry 564 2008-06-20 19:28 .Xauthority

Owen

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 20:01 -0400, Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:
> 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.