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Steve, As suggested I used Ctrl + Alt + F1 to break out from the GUI
login.<br>
A prompt of my system name followed by login: appeared but I am unable
to login as root. Some text flashed up very briefly before the login
reappeared. Any suggestions? Brendan<br>
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Steve 'Dobbo' Dobson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Brenban
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:30:39PM +0100, Brendan Whelan wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I created a mirrored copy of an FC6 system using the embedded program in
a SATA raid controller. The cloned disk boots, switches to GUI mode and
displays the login screen. When I login I get "Your session lasted less
than 10 seconds....session_child_run: Could not exec
/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession default" "Could not start the session due to
internal error" The same happens in failsafe mode. As an aside, I got
the same problem when I tried cloning by copying each partition in
turn. How can I overcome the problem? Thanks, Brendan
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I've seen the same message on non-cloned systems from time to time when I've
there have been big updates to the graphics system (in Debian testing so I
was not surprised).
I logged in on a console (Ctrl + Alt + F1) and moved all the .gnome* and
.ICEauthority files to a safe place.
$ mkdir SAFE
$ mv .gnome* SAFE
$ mv .ICEauthority SAFE
And then found I could log in okay. If you're using KDE there will be
similar files but I don't know what they are.
What this does is clear out the config they you had and when you login the
system then uses defaults and creates a new set of config. The downside is
that you need to re-configure your graphics session to your preferences again,
but at least it will get you in. Buy moving the old config files to a safe
place at least you can review what your old config setting where.
Hope this helps
Steve
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