Cannot login

[Ted]

Ted wrote:

> Just shutdown and rebooted my box and when I try to login it tells me
> Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds...Try logging in with 
> one of the failsafe options to see if you can fix this problem...Then
> View details ~/.xsessions-errors file..
> I have looked at this file and nothing seems wrong....I did a mv and 
> rebooted
> and the same error came up and the same xsessions-errors appeared..
> Anyone an idea of what I should be looking at....
> The box had been running for a couple of weeks ok  so I don't know why
> it should come up with the 10 second bit....
>
Just looked at /etc/passwd and there is no mention of root as there is 
in my Mepis installation...Should this be so ??

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Regards
  Ted Wager
   Linux user