[plug] nothing but a brown screen and mouse cursor after GDM login?

[Senectus .]

On 12/11/05, Daniel Foote <freefoote at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello...
>
> You might also want to check out "~/.xsession" of the relevant user. I
> usually customise mine to do some other stuff, and if you've put a
> command in there that doesn't background, it can hang X waiting for a
> condition to quit.
>

I don't seem to have an .xsession in either my account or the user
that does work account...

I do have an .xsession-errors that seems to be full of stuff that
doesn't make a lot of sense to me..

Can anyone make sense of this?

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w
/var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l
":0" "mgiles"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
_IceTransTransNoListen: unable to find transport: tcp
_IceTransPTSOpenServer: Unable to link /dev/pts/0 to /dev/X/ICE.14316
_IceTransOpen: transport open failed for pts/raven:
_IceTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for pts
_IceTransISCOpenServer: Protocol is not supported by a ISC connection
_IceTransOpen: transport open failed for isc/raven:
_IceTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for isc
_IceTransSCOOpenServer: Protocol is not supported by a SCO connection
_IceTransOpen: transport open failed for sco/raven:
_IceTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for sco
SESSION_MANAGER=unix/raven:/tmp/.ICE-unix/14316


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