stuck at login screen kubuntu 8.04

[Nils Kassube]

Juan Kawada wrote:
> 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)

You can use a command line editor like "nano" or you can view the contents 
of the files with the commands "cat" (displays the entire file on the 
screen) or "less" (here you can navigate within the file using the arrow 
keys, quit with "q").

> xauth: error in locking authority file /home/eddie/.Xauthority
>
> Is another message I got while trying to start x

Could it be that your "/home/eddie/.Xauthority" is owned by root? Try the 
command "ls -l /home/eddie/.Xauthority" to see permissions. Mine looks 
like this:

-rw------- 1 nils nils 1053 Oct 17 06:42 /home/nils/.Xauthority

If it is owned by root, you can use this command:

sudo chown eddie /home/eddie/.Xauthority


Nils