Login Stuck at KDM Screen

[Erik Harrison]

After logging in with KDM, and being bumped back to the login screen,
switch to another VT and take a look at ~/.xsession-errors. Anything
interesting in there?

On 8/2/05, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>    Running Slackware-10.1 on a ThinkPad 600E with Xfce-4.2.1. This past
> weekend my fiancee could not log in to her account on this machine because
> she could not get out of an infinite loop at the login screen. Same thing
> happens if I try to log in as a user or as root. Entry of username and
> password does not start xfce but returns the login screen.
> 
>    This has not happened before.
> 
>    My temporary solution was to boot with a Knoppix disk and change
> /etc/inittab from runlevel 4 to runlevel 3. At least we can now log in to the
> console and run 'startx' (which is an alias to startxfce4).
> 
>    I've no idea where to look for the cause of the problem or what file to
> change to try GDM rather than KDM. In her ~/.config/xfce4 there's no xinitrc
> file. But, xfce does come up with session management working.
> 
>    I'd like to resolve this as quickly as possible, so any thoughts,
> suggestions, or ideas are welcome.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Rich
> 
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