XFCE crashes immediately after login

[Andrew Conkling]

On 2/17/06, Chris Dufresne <duf82z24 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

You mean after you did 'telinit 3'?  That's because the service was
killed.  'telinit 5' to get it back.

But if Xfce started, that seems like something is messed up with the
GDM session.  Can you confirm that it is working by itself, but not
when you start it from GDM?

> --- 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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