Adam Mercer <ram@star.sr.bham.ac.uk> writes: > Hi > > I'm having problems with a laptop running 7.1 - it's set to boot into > runlevel 5 which it does sucessfully. However I am unable to login to the > system as a standard user - root is fine. This therefore made me think > that it was a permissions problem, but everything seems fine. > > When you login as a normal user, gdm dissappears and returns about 30s > later, I can't find any messages in the logs. > > I know I've read about this before but I can't remember where I read it. > Anyone got any ideas of things to check? Have you looked in ~/.xsession-errors ? Owen