Your session only lasted 10 seconds
jonrkc
ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Sat May 21 16:06:09 UTC 2005
The "only 10 seconds" thing happens to me when my window manager gets
messed up and can't start properly. Then I delete the ~.ICEauthority
file and do sudo killall gdm and am able to work again--either with a
different window manager or by fixing the faulty one. (Having trouble
today with my favorite of over two years now, IceWM. Rarely has it
caused me ANY trouble before.)
I feel very lucky I'd had this kind of thing happen before and after a
couple of HOURS of searching for the solution, found out finally about
the authority file. I wish the error message would tell the user what
to do instead of leaving him/her clueless. Very often all a user needs
to do is to delete a lock file or the ICEauthority file, but a beginner
would have absolutely no idea what to do.
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jonrkc
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