stuck at login screen kubuntu 8.04

[Willy Hamra]

2008/10/17 Juan Kawada <juankawada at gmail.com>:
> nothing seems out of order when I try dmsg. no errors, and everything it
> tried to initialize is initialized.
> How do I view those files? I tried using kate to open them, but obviously
> that didn't work while x was down (and it told me so)
>
> xauth: error in locking authority file /home/eddie/.Xauthority
>
> Is another message I got while trying to start x
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 2008/10/16 Juan Kawada <juankawada at gmail.com>:
>> > Also, heres some new information. when trying to start xorg from the
>> > console
>> > I got a message saying "saw signal 11. server aborting. connection to x
>> > server is lost"
>> >
>>
>> Check the log files /var/log/Xorg.0.log /varlog/messages
>> ~/.xsession-errors and the output of dmesg for any clues.
>> For me it looks like X or KDM crashes for some reason.
>>
>> / Jonas
>>

in the login screen there is a session button where you can choose
failsafe, try that and see if it logs you in.

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Willy K. Hamra
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