Can anyone explain what exactly is going on? <div>On 7/19/05, Vicky <<a href="mailto:shriked@gmail.com">shriked@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Just try renaming .ICEauthority to .ICEauthority.bak( using either the recovery mode or failsafe terminal ..or press Ctrl+Alt+F2 and logon). Some people have had problems with .ICEauthority and this is at best a temporary fix. Try it out and let us know. </blockquote></div> I had upgraded to Breezy, and all was working well. I received a notice about a kernel upgrade, and it would take effect after a reboot. Some days later after finishing urgent things, I did eventually reboot. On completing the spashscreen formalities, and logging in with name and password, I was booted out with the message to check the .xsesson error file. It contained references to .ICExxx files (details forgotten) Now - I had not installed icewm before on this system, so I was puzzzled as to why gdm should refer me to icewm in the configuration file. Does anyone know why? My solution - I installed icewm and all relevant dependancies from the root terminal. Rebooted into icewm and all is well. Now I want to track down exactly WHAT happend to my system and WHY. Can anyone shed some light? Brian