problem: hoary, after update no gdm login ..

[David M. Carney]

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 12:31 -0600, Santiago Erquicia wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 19:25 +0100, kloschi at subsignal dot org wrote:
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>>After updating alot of stuff today, its no longer possible
>>to login to X.
>>All users get "session was shorter than 10 secs ..", with an
>>.xsession-errors:
>>/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your Session with wtmp and utmp
>>/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Running: /usr/bin/x11/sessreg -a -w 
>>/var/log/wtmp \
>>- -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.XServers" -h "" -l ":0" "kloschi"
>>/etc/gdm/XSession: beginning session setup ...
>>SESSION_MANAGER=local/ira:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4669
>>
>>
>>and nothing more.
>>I have no clue what causes this or how to debug, bedause no log says 
>>anything.
>>Any Ideas?
>>I'd need that machine up and running asap : /
>>
>
>
>Downgrade the package libesd to the previous one or wait until a new
>package is uploaded.  This is what Jeff Waugh said in the devel list.
>
>I went to the directory where all the packages are cached and then run
>
>sudo dpkg -i libesdxxxxxxxxxx
>
>You need the one that doesn't have ubuntu1 in its name
>
>Hope it helps,
>Santiago
>
>
>
Delete your ~/.ICEauthority file and then you should be able to login.

It will be recreated at your next login. It just got corrupted somehow.

Always works for me.

David

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