starting X

[Paul Dickson]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:44:31 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 03:15:52PM -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:
> > 
> > So far, I can't get gdm to start any sessions (Gnome or KDE) for my user
> > account except the failsafe terminal.  Gdm will, however, start root's
> > account.
> 
> You are further here than me.  Even after edits in
> /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, so the current X server will be used, I
> cannot start anything but "failsafe", I believe, i.e some kind of
> twm session and this is root or no root.  Quite possibly I would
> have to check every path there but I am not sure what I am really
> searching.
> 
> OTOH with 'startx' I am getting a regular sessions both for root
> and not-root accounts.

Possibly part of my advantage is I never logged root via GDM before now.
(Thinking to myself) So this means that whatever's causing the problem is
is likely in my home directory.

	-Paul