X Login Error

[unknown]

the following error message appear when attempting to logon from my Linux desktop....

When I attempt to log in as as user i'm seeing the following error directly after entering the password and username.

"Your session only lasted less that ten seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or that you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix the problem"

Checkbox - View Details (~/.xsession-errors file) which when checked dsiplays the following.

/home/user/.Xclients: line 8: /home/user/.Xclients-default: No such file or directory

/home/user/.Xclients: line 8: exec: /home/user/.Xclients-default: cannot execute: No such file or directory

[oosterhouse]

Do you have enough disk space?

[unknown]

yeah only 4% of my disk was used.....

[webgawd]

I am getting the same error after doing an upgrade from SuSE 10 to SuSE 10.1. Logging in as a non-root user works fine, but trying to use YAST2 as root or directly logging in as root gives the error and throws me back to the login prompt.

My /root/.xsession-errors file shows the following:

linux:~ # cat .xsession-errors
/etc/opt/gnome/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/opt/gnome/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "root"
/etc/X11/xim: Checking wether an input method should be started.
INPUT_METHOD is not set or empty (no user selected input method).
Trying to start a default input method for the locale en_US.UTF-8 ...
There is no default input method for the current locale.
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
unable to open display
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
xrdb: Can't open display ':0'
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

(gnome-session:382: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

If anybody can help, please just let me know. It's driving me nuts not to be able to properly update in a normal fashion.

Thanks.

[webgawd]

I deleted the .XAuthority file and that allowed me to log in as root, no more MIT Magic Cookie error, but now when I log in, as soon as the screen begins to materialize, the video goes crazy, the monitor locks and a reboot is necessary.

[yoosook]

For some reason, after loggin in as a root, the ownership for .ICEauthority in my regular
account changed to root.

I changed its ownership back to the non-root account name

sudo chown foobar ~foobar/.ICEauthority

and I was able to login using level 5.

[klx3h]

I am getting the same error after doing an upgrade from SuSE 10 to SuSE 10.1. Logging in as a non-root user works fine, but trying to use YAST2 as root or directly logging in as root gives the error and throws me back to the login prompt.

My /root/.xsession-errors file shows the following:

linux:~ # cat .xsession-errors
/etc/opt/gnome/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/opt/gnome/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "root"
/etc/X11/xim: Checking wether an input method should be started.
INPUT_METHOD is not set or empty (no user selected input method).
Trying to start a default input method for the locale en_US.UTF-8 ...
There is no default input method for the current locale.
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
unable to open display
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
xrdb: Can't open display ':0'
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

(gnome-session:382: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

If anybody can help, please just let me know. It's driving me nuts not to be able to properly update in a normal fashion.

Thanks.

If you can log in as a user, su to the root account and copy .Xauthority to the /root directory. It fixed my problem.

Art