Mandrake 9/X login problems

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Author: Deepak Saxena
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Subject: Mandrake 9/X login problems
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

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