Problems with X.org not related to xorg.conf

[Thilo Six]

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redondos schrieb am 19.02.2006 15:43:
> Hi there. I'm using Ubuntu Breezy, although I mostly use KDE on this system. 
> 
> After a reboot, I couldn't log in anymore. From kdm, after typing in my credentials, the screen is blanked for a few seconds and then kdm is restarted. When using gdm instead, it tells me that my sessions lasted less than 10 seconds and shows me the login dialog again.
> 
> I can still log in from a console, that's ok. But here seems to be a problem, since I can't run some window manager initialization scripts, such as 'startkde'. Here's how it looks like.

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> redondos

Sometime I had a similar behaviour.

What do you get with:

$ ls -la ~/.ICEauthority

?

It should be s.th. like this:
$ ls -la .ICEauthority
- -rw-------  1 USER USER 32951 19.02.06 15:47 .ICEauthority
               ^^   ^^  If this is root, you?ll have the problems described.

bye Thilo

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