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erno

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Registered: 2009-08-24

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Unable to login [solved]

After a recent update I'm unable to get to X. I use quickinit to boot and CDM to pick DWM after login but I get thrown back to the login prompt immediately. I can only login as root to the console. Any other info I can give?

Last edited by erno (2011-01-29 06:40:25)

Mr Green

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Re: Unable to login [solved]

Stop X then try startx in console [as user if possible] see if you get any output

Check pacman.log for recent updates that may have affected system

Last edited by Mr Green (2011-01-28 20:19:34)

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erno

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Registered: 2009-08-24

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Re: Unable to login [solved]

I can't stop X as it never starts and i also can't login to the console from CDM. I'll try to run X as root to see if that works.

erno

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Registered: 2009-08-24

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Re: Unable to login [solved]

No matter what I put in my .xinitrc I just can't get to X. I also can't see any packages that were upgraded that would have an effect to this. I did some heavy cleaning up via pacman -Qdt recently, maybe I removed an important package there?

I can get to X as root.

erno

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Registered: 2009-08-24

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Re: Unable to login [solved]

I had to update CDM and remove ck-launch-session from .xinitrc to get this fixed.

Oblitus

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Re: Unable to login [solved]

Bump. I have the same problem I can't initiate gdm, I think someone should tell ghost.

edited.
I don't have ck-launch-session in my xinitrc -_- sorry for hijacking since I was a few minutes late

Last edited by Oblitus (2011-01-29 06:48:42)