I just wanted to add a comment on this, because the exact same thing happened 
on one of my MEPIS boxes a few months ago. About two weeks before it 
happened, the computer was noticeably slower downloading files, sometimes 
stopping without finishing, and the hard drive ran at odd times for no good 
reason. Evenually, I ran into the same problem of logging in under my 
username, and the login screen would restart.
	Being a complete ignoramus when it comes to checking and editing scripts, I 
attempted a "Brute Force" fix. Logging in as root, I created a newuser 
profile, saved my /home/user files into /home/newuser, then simply deleted 
the old user profile, and it seemed to work fine after that. It was the first 
and only suspicious problem I've come across since I began running Linux two 
years ago. Disturbingly Windows-like, but a LOT easier to recover from.
	I have no idea what caused it, but I've been exercising more caution opening 
e-mails since then.

On Monday 30 January 2006 20:44, Major.Mikey wrote:
> This is strange. The filesystem check thing (that is forced to run after
> 30-40 boots) just ran and it seems all is fine now. Bizarre!
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> On Monday 30 January 2006 08:28 am, Shawn Badger wrote:
> > Just a shot in the dark, but have you run chkrootkit on this machine. I
> > am wondering if your shell hasn't been compromised and now will only run
> > under root to get the added permissions that it needs.
> >
> > On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 17:45 -0600, bmike1@mcleodusa.net wrote:
> > > When the computer is started up it gets to the login screen but upon
> > > entering the correct password it merely ends the session and returns to
> > > the login screen. Well, I can get aound that by loging in as root....
> > > but not into the primary window manager (that being ICE) but into
> > > failsfe. Apparently, kmail is not available for use in failsafe but
> > > thankfully mozilla is.
> > >
> > > Please, how can I fix this?
> > >
> > > if you need to call me the number is 480.615.1310
> > >
> > > Thank you so much if you are willing to help me!
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