On 11/22 09:59 , Mike Miller wrote: > I'm hoping someone here has run into a similar problem. I lost power to > my computer and when I restarted it I couldn't get back into the X > session. I'm running Xubuntu 9.10. Basically, I enter the password, a > few things happen and it asks for the password again. This continues > iteratively until I'm too angry and tired to continue. When I go to > Alt-F1 console, I see this... This is why I hate GDM/KDM/XDM and other graphical login mechanisms, but I'm a greybeard curmudgeon... ;) Check your /etc/hosts file; one of the problems I had with GDM was that if it couldn't resolve the local machine's name, it would keep dying and being restarted. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com