Re: correct login gives login screen, KDE

From: Fred Emmott (pcfreak65_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:14:38 +0000

cathyy@linux.local wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 12:51:52 -0800, lava.lamp wrote:
>
>> cathyy@linux.local wrote in message
>> news:<pan.2004.02.20.20.17.16.600455@linux.local>...
>>> This just happened. I went to log in to my Sse 9.0 as my usual user, and
>>> when I type in the correct password it flashes to blank, and then
>>> returns to the login screen. any advice?
>>
>> I have had this happen to me with 8.2 several times. Usually I reboot
>> and then it works fine. I like SuSE but I have found that not
>> everything works all of the time and rebooting (sometimes several
>> times in a row) can resolve erratic program behavior.
>
> Rebooting hasn't helped me. I have been able to reproduce the problem,
> though. When Evolution quit responding, I tried to kill it, but was
> unsuccessful. Nor would KDE let me exit gracefully (panel and all
> disappeared. Yeah, learn my terminal commands)so I did a manual power
> down.
>
> I reproduced this inability to login with the correct password in this
> way: I wanted to install the nvidia drivers. I typed in init 3 at a
> terminal window. It had the desired effect of killing KDE and the Xserver,
> dumping me to a console. It also created the unable to login problem.
>
> So, it seems to be related to an improper shutdown of either KDE or the
> Xserver. Any brilliant ideas about what is going on here? Libranet never
> did that, but I was using Icewm then, too.
>
> cathyy

It can also be your firewall. If you have all packets dropped by default,
you can't login to X. try, as root:

iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT

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