Login: No effect, returns to login screen.

[Joebear80]

For some reason, at my last reboot, I could not login (Feisty Fawn).
The screen turns blank for a while, the I get returned to the login screen.
I tried restarting X server. No effect.
I tried to login in terminal mode, and that works, but how do I make my
graphical desktop work again?
I tried to restore xorg.conf from a backup I had made yesterday, and I succeeded,
but it had no effect on the problem.

[dibl]

Re: Login: No effect, returns to login screen.

Cool -- I was waiting for the first guy with a GUI problem, to test the little "How To" that I wrote yesterday:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3085112.0

Let us know if it helps, please and thank you!

[Rog131]

Re: Login: No effect, returns to login screen.

I tried to restore xorg.conf from a backup I had made yesterday, and I succeeded,
but it had no effect on the problem.

What did you do (update, installation...)?
Do you have ati/fglrx ?

There has been problems with fglrx drivers -> gdm (kdm) loop
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=233023.
My session just died, without any error messages in the Xorg.0.log.
Solution to my problem was to wait newer version of fglrx drivers.

You could check /var/log/ Xorg.0.log.
errors:

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(EE)"

and warnings:

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(WW)"

Links
HOWTO : Disaster Recovery and xorg.conf
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3082808.0

[SheeEttin]

Re: Login: No effect, returns to login screen.

Rog131: http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html
"grep WW /var/log/Xorg.0.log && grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log" works fine. grep can read from files by itself, thanks.

[Rog131]

Re: Login: No effect, returns to login screen.

To SheeEttin:

"There are many ways to skin a cat"

I have Pipe Brains:
First you print with cat (print on the standard output)
Then you filter output with grep (print lines matching a pattern)