Stuck at the login screen

[Waleed Hamra]

On 01/11/2011 09:36 PM, Homer wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Clay Weber <claydoh at claydoh.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Homer <fsunoles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 2011/1/10 Homer <fsunoles at gmail.com>:
>>>>> Fresh install of Kubuntu 10.04 LTS.
>>>>>
>>>>> Machine is a microcomputer; an older version of this:
>>>>> http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjrmx/index.html
>>>>>
>>>>> I successfully ran 8.04 on this machine in the past.  10.04 installs
>>>>> without a hitch, but I'm stuck at the login screen.  Entering a
>>>>> username/password the login process starts, but about 2/3 of the way
>>>>> through the screen goes blank, and when it comes back I am again at
>>>>> the login in screen.
>>>>>
>>>>> Result is the same when choosing the failsafe option.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> At the login screen, select "console login" from one of the button on the
>> screen (can't remeber which one). Once there issue the following commands
>>
>> sudo service kdm stop
>> (this is to make sure KDM is not running in for the next step)
>>
>> then run this:
>> startx
> 
> The result of these steps is the machine locks up.  It stops at the
> point a normal attempt would cycle back to the login screen.  Through
> switching terminals during subsequent attempts I was able to see the
> messages resulting from the startx command.  Nothing stood out to me.
> The final line was: "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X
> server."  Is there a way to capture the startx messages?
> 

<snip>

to capture the message being thrown by the command, type this on the
command line:

startx 1>/tmp/x.log 2>&1

this will place all output to a file in /tmp called X.log, you can then
read it using your favourite program, like:

less /tmp/x.log
or
nano /tmp/x.log

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Waleed K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems