Re: Can't login... need help

From: Paul Ravish (pravish_at_appleaid.com)
Date: 11/28/05

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    Still no luck. I received the same error message. Here is what I did:

    as root I typed /etc/init.d/gdm stop

    it looked like it shutdown but then automatically restarted. But when
    I listed the processes it didn't come up.

    $ps ax | grep gdm

    I'm not sure what OS version I'm running. How can find out? The OS
    was installed about a month ago.

    Thanks,

       --Paul

    On Nov 28, 2005, at 11:37 AM, Antony Gelberg wrote:

    > Paul Ravish wrote:
    >
    >> Hi Antony,
    >>
    >> I logged in as root and typed "startx". This seemed to work as it
    >> took
    >> me to roots desktop.
    >>
    >> When I logged in as me (paul) and I typed "startx" I received the
    >> error
    >> message
    >>
    >> xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/paul/.Xauthority
    >>
    >> Any ideas?
    >>
    >
    > Please don't cc me, I read the list. Don't run X as root.
    >
    > I suspect the above error comes from the running gdm. So as root,
    > /etc/init.d/gdm stop. ps ax |grep gdm to ensure that it's dead. Then
    > try the startx again. Are you running sarge?
    >
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