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
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