On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:56 AM, karl <captainhaggy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06:51 Tue 19 Oct , Guillermo Leira wrote: > > > After the last Pacman -Syu, I can't login with gdm. As soon as I clikc > on my > > > username, the system seems to freeze... Although not completely: I can > ping > > > from other computer, but I can't ssh. > > > > > > Before I click on the username, the "switch off" icon at the right down > corner > > > works. Once I click on the username, nothing else works, and I neither > can > > > ctrl-alt-F1 to the console... > > > > > > Any suggestions/questions? > > > > I have removed GDM and installed SLIM. Now I can login, but the screen > shows nothing... And if I try to CTRL-ALT-F1 to the console, the system > locks again. It is not a GDM problem. > > > > If I run startx from the command line, X starts. > > > > Any advice? > > > > Best regards, > > > > Guillermo > > > > Hi Guillermo, > > try and make yourself a new user. If that one can work with the X-part of > your system - then some rights in your local $HOME directory are broken > (.xinitrc > would be a candidate for this kind of weird behaviour, but also > .ICEauthority or .Xauthority). > If of cause the new user account does have the same problems, your /etx/X11 > or worse might have wrong user rights. > Have also a look i a file called .xerrors, .xsession-errors - or something > like that (can't remember the correct name anymore), there could be some > hints in > it, if it does exist, what your problem is. > > Best regards, > > Karl > > When you run Slim, you also get a /var/log/slim.log to look at. -- Cédric Girard
