Hi all,

I've been using linux/unix now only for a couple of months and was doing ok until about 30 minutes ago...

I needed to reboot into my windows 2000 partition, so, in a terminal I typed:

shutdown -r now

which duly rebooted the PC for me. On getting to the OS selection screen I realised I needed some info from an email on my linux patition, so booted back to linux. When I got to the logon screen (graphical) I put in my user and password details, but it just put me back onto the logon screen! I've tried numerous times to login, typing both username and password very carefully and I still cannot logon to my account.

However, if I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or F2,F3 etc) and enter my details I find I CAN login under that account! What's going on?!!

As a temporary measure, I logged in as root and created another user account, but I really want my old account back! Does anybody out there know why I cannot login graphically, but am able to do so in terminal mode?

Before all this happened I was just surfing and I also changed the length of time my desktop is inactive before the screensaver starts up, so I can't work out why my account has just died like that.

I am using Mandrake 9.1, I have Gnome ICEwm and KDE installed and normally use KDE - (I've tried logging in using both KDE and Gnome to no avail).

Please help! Thanks in advance for any advice you are able to give.

Confused and dazed...