Re: Can't login... need help

From: Mario Frasca (mfrasca_at_interia.pl)
Date: 11/30/05

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    Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:19:51 +0100
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    Paul, you must make sure that X is not running on an other console if you
    want to use startx.

    the suggestion to run startx is very reasonable: this way you
    will see where it stops. if you don't manage to stop gdm/kdm/xdm, you can
    do two things I believe:

    switch to an other runlevel (you do this by logging in as root and
    giving the command 'init <runlevel>'). on my system runlevel 2 does not
    contain X. once I've entered runlevel 2 I only see the text consoles and
    I can give startx.

    an other thing you could do is looking into your /var/log files.
    try asking this:

    ls -lrt /var/log/X*log

    the last line is also the newest file. probably you can find some
    useful info inside it.

    ciao,
    Mario

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