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Distribution: Red Hat 9.0, Suse 9.0, Bayanihan Linux 3.0
Posts: 69
Rep:
Problem in X-windows login
LinuxGurus,
Please help me with this.
My Suse's X-window system has gotta be kiddin' me... both my root and regular user won't log in x-windows, it just keeps on returning to the login menu... but when I try it in text mode, I am having no problem... I can log both the root and my regular username... but prior to this I am trying to install LinNeighborhood but to no avail... after that my regular user won't log in to X-windows then after trying to configuring the user in control center and tried to log both of them won't login... please help me...
maybe your ~/.xinitrc is messed up... rename this file and try again if tis works, you may want to analyze the file and check if there's anything strange with it...
Distribution: Red Hat 9.0, Suse 9.0, Bayanihan Linux 3.0
Posts: 69
Original Poster
Rep:
Autopsy,
I've tried what you said, but the file .xinitrc has nothing inside when I opened it in vi, and I can't rename it... so I decided to delete it, now I was able to log in again, but is there any effect if the said file was deleted?
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