Check your user ID number (in /etc/passwd) versus the ID number of who owns your home directory. That one got me once... On Thursday 27 February 2003 09:36, Deepak Saxena wrote: > I just upgraded my MDK8.0 system to MDK9.0 and everything seems to > have gone smoothly except for one slight snafu. I can't login into > my system through kdm. If I give it my login and password, the kdm > window goes away, I get a black screen, and then the login screen > immediately comes back. Running 'last' shows that I did actually login, > but for about 1 second. The interesting thing is that if I 'init 3' > and then just run startx, I am able to use X w/o any problems. These > login issues only happen when using my account, the superuser can login t > hrough kdm with no problems whatever. I've looked through various log > files and there does not seem to be usefull data anywhere. I've deleted > all .k* and .X* and .x* files from ~ to attempt a reset of my X > environemnt, but still no luck. Any ptrs appreciated. > > Tnx, > ~Deepak -- Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/