GUI Login Issue

[shagilm]

Hi,

I'm having a problem logging into my KDE desktop. I have two accounts on the system - root and my own login. When the login screen appears if I try to login using my own login it looks as if the x-windows session is being reset - I get the NVidia splash screen and then it goes back to the login screen again. The root user can login fine. This is not a new install and the system has worked perfectly for the past few months. Problem only appeared yesterday

I've tried to select the session from the menu in the corner (just to ensure KDE is selected) but no joy.....

Anyone point me in the right direction????

Thanks.

[infoshirish]

Hi,

I'm having a problem logging into my KDE desktop. I have two accounts on the system - root and my own login. When the login screen appears if I try to login using my own login it looks as if the x-windows session is being reset - I get the NVidia splash screen and then it goes back to the login screen again. The root user can login fine. This is not a new install and the system has worked perfectly for the past few months. Problem only appeared yesterday

I've tried to select the session from the menu in the corner (just to ensure KDE is selected) but no joy.....

Anyone point me in the right direction????

Thanks.

Hey,
Are you able to login through console / text mode by that user?. Also i hope the username and password you are giving are correct.
Does these problems occure for other non-root users?
Login as root create another normal user. Try to login with that user in KDE.
If still problem persist. Post the output of below commands:-
Code:

#grep <username> /etc/passwd
#ls -l /home/<username>

/home/<username> is default home directory. If you have set some other home directory for the users post there outputs.

[EclipseAgent]

log in as root.. go to your users home directory and remove the .ICEauthority files.

Then try to log back in

[udayk]

hey, i had similar problem once.. i remember deleting .xinitrc file in the home folder.. in any case do this after you take a backup of this file in, say .xinitrc.orig and then proceed.. you can do this logging in as a root.. or even even from the command line without going to x server console.. good luck..

[shagilm]

Hi,

Thanks for all your help on this issue - I've solved it - partially.

Using the console login I verified that the login was ok and then tried to start x-windows manually using startx. This showed an error when trying to create a /tmp file.

As it turned out my root partition had run low on space and x-windows couldn't start because of this - so my fault. I resized the root partition and all was well again - sort of

However - x-windows still will not start correctly when using the gui login but works fine if I do a console login and the issue the startx command ???

Anyone any ideas why the gui login won't start the session correctly???

Cheers,

Shane