<html><head></head><body>Here is a diagnostic idea: shut down your gui login, login from the console and run startx. You may see a useful message.<br>
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Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Mike Bean <beandaemon@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif">Little bit lost in the woods, any guidance is appreciated. I'm running<br />Mint12, I had thought everything was OK, just used the computer last<br />night, but when I try to login in just jumps me back to the login<br />screen. I can get to a tty/bash prompt, so I've been fishing around in<br />my syslog/dmesg, etc... Looking for something that looks like an<br />error. I can login at Bash, so I know I'm not giving it a bad<br />credential. There's an x log in /var/log, but I don't see any aborts<br />in there either. I'm fairly decentralized, I can reload if I have to,<br />and what research I've done suggests I may end up doing a repair<br />install or a reinstall. If I need to go down that road I will, but I'd<br />really rather come to some understanding of what I did wrong, so I<br />don't do it again.<br /><br />The only thing I can think of that I did yesterday that was even<br />remotel
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system-related was I looking at disabling sleep, so I removed<br />pm-utils, changed my mind and reinstalled it. (pm-utils). That would<br />be the only system change I can think of.<br /><br />advice is appreciated.<br /><br />Bean<br /><hr /><br />clue mailing list: clue@cluedenver.org<br />For information, account preferences, or to unsubscribe see:<br /><a href="http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue">http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue</a><br /><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>