XFCE crashes immediately after login

[Chris Dufresne]

I did try telinit 5, and that's when I discovered the
problem. gdm comes up with an error about an X server
already running on :0. I've tried a reboot, a hard
shutdown. I still get the same error. But I just found
out that a co-worker was playing around trying to get
xdm to come up, so I'm thinking, that's probably the
problem. 

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

> 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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