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.


-- 
jonrkc




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