It happened when I was exploring the effect of the Ctrl+Alt+Fn keys and tried starting X-windows on the same terminal as screen 1. And then choosing by mistake Reboot before I even had chance to try to close screen 0.
I fixed the problem temporarily by selecting option 3 in /etc/inittab (booting into multiuser mode). I can now use X-windows, invoking startx, at least in my user account, but still not as root! When I try invoke startx as a root, it exits without giving any reason/errors.
By the way, that message actually contains at least one typing error
"your session lasted for less THEN 10 seconds ...", and then says something about installation errors (none were reported during installation) or the lack of memory (that's not my case), so that was not very helpful.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Mirek
Pavel Rozenboim wrote:
It happened to me once after I used switchdesk, to switch desktop environment only on specific display. If that's what you did, remove .Xclients* in your home dir. Pavel.-----Original Message-----
From: orion [mailto:orionc@shaw.ca]
Sent: Thu, November 28, 2002 10:49 PM
To: psyche-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: your session lasted for less than 10 seconds
Hi!
What to do if after trying to log on, I am consistently getting the message:
"your session lasted for less than 10 seconds ...". Initially on my user account, now also on the root account. Trying to log into a Failsafe session gives the same result. This happened the first time I rebooted the computer after installing RHL 8.0 some 2 weeks ago.
Reinstall Linux???
Thanks,
mk
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