Gnome session reverts back to gdm on login.


 
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Old 11-30-2010
Gnome session reverts back to gdm on login.

Hi everyone. I just had a quick problem. I'm not too familiar with linux yet, otherwise I'd have this figured out by now.

I recently did the Debian 5lenny7 update with the standard debian update manager. After getting all installed and rebooted, I tried to login to my account again. Every time I login, it will appear to boot the gnome session (e.g. background loads or panels start to appear) and then after a couple seconds, it will revert back to the main terminal and restart gdm. I tried the suggestions on archlinux with the gnome tty2 thing, but this is running in tty1 (I think) and nothing has changed.

KDE starts fine, and I can login with any other user account into gnome, but for some reason, only my account is affected.

Any suggestions? Could it be a problem with X maybe? Also, I'd include an error log, but I have no idea how to get one displayed.

Thanks!
# 2  
Old 11-30-2010
Maybe your environment, .profile or such, is different, so it cannot load. Compare the output of 'set' on two accounts.
# 3  
Old 11-30-2010
Well....they are definitely different. The account i'm on right now has limited access (e.g. no sudo access), and the list is fairly simple. The account i can't get into though has a set showing the standard details and (i assume) the functions for every terminal command. what things should i be comparing?
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Old 12-01-2010
Things on the simple one that works that are missing or different on the one that does not. PATH and whatever does dynamic library path (LD_LIBRARY_PATH according to Google) are critical for anything.
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