XFCE crashes immediately after login

[Chris Dufresne]

This appears to have only made things worse. xfce
started successfully, but now the gdm greeter fails to
come up. I can still log in on the command line and
start xfce, but it would be nice if the gdm greeter
was still available. It's some very odd behavior.

--- Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/16/06, Chris Dufresne <duf82z24 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm using RHEL-3, installed all the dependencies,
> and
> > ran the xfce graphical installer. So now I have
> xfce
> > in my sessions list of gdm but when I attempt to
> login
> > using it the session immediately terminates with
> the
> > "The session lasted less than 10 seconds" error
> > sending me back to the login screen.
> >
> > I have checked both .xsession-errors and
> > /var/log/messages neither has any information
> about
> > what went wrong. The gnome desktop still works.
> This
> > problem is especially frustrating because I can't
> seem
> > to find an error report on it anywhere.
> >
> > Has anyone ran into this error or have any ideas
> what
> > could be causing it?
> 
> Not sure, but you could try killing GDM (should be
> able to do that by
> executing 'telinit 3' as root on a vt) and executing
> 'startxfce4'* as
> a regular user.  This will output a bunch of info to
> the vt and
> immediatlely start Xfce.  If there's an error, your
> session should die
> and you should see the reported message right there.
> :)
> 
> *- You could also execute 'startxfce4 >
> ~/xfcelog.txt' to output the
> messages to a file that you can read in case you
> have trouble reading
> it on the terminal screen.  You could also paste it
> here if you need
> help deciphering it. :)
> 
> HTH,
> Andrew
> 
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