Can't Log In

[Lord Sauron]

On 3/20/06, Thomas Olsen <thomas_tanghus_olsen at yahoo.dk> wrote:
> On Monday den 20. March 2006 21:12, Richard Crawford wrote:
> > I seem to be unable to log in to my Dapper Drake (flight 5) computer.  When
> > I enter my username and password, it hangs for a moment and then takes me
> > back to the login screen.  I get no message telling me that I've entered a
> > wrong login or password, unless I deliberately put in a wrong password.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> Try to check whats in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Aye, do that.  Because I had this problem once before.

What was happening is that my desktop enviornment (UDE) had royally
kicked the can and murdered X11 just before its own suicide.  If this
is happening with KDE the only thing that fatal I can think of would
be a malconfigured graphics card.  To rectify this without a desktop
enviornment is easy if you're not afraid of the CLI.  Do a console
login and then su root.

I ended up needing to just change to a different desktop enviornment
(in this case just sticking with KDE).

Tell us what Xorg.0.log says - that was very very revealing when I had
my problem.  If it's telling you things that have the string Qt in
them you may need to reconfigure the Qt libraries - they are not happy
when malconfigured, I can tell you that!

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