[ale] can't login

[Scott Castaline]

On 03/22/2011 04:51 PM, Michael Trausch wrote:
> Is your /home on LVM?  If so, snapshot the volume and remove dot files
> one by one until you can successfully login again.  Then remove (or
> edit!) the one that is the problem.  It can take a while to narrow it
> down that way, but then you'd have a cause (something to report a bug
> about) as well as a proper fix.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:52, Scott Castaline<skotchman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Ughh! I don't think I like the sounds of that. I remember having to do that
>> on of my fresh install/upgrades. Not fun or almost as much fun as having a
>> root canal done with out the Novocaine..
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Jim Kinney<jim.kinney at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Oh joy. I got hit by something like this a long time ago. The solution was
>>> to (ugh!) take all the "." files in planejane user home and copy them to my
>>> home to overwrite all the old cruft. The nasty was in some .gnome* files.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Scott Castaline<skotchman at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Just got my MSI 890FXA-GD70 bd back from Newegg RMA. System boots up
>>>> fine, but when I login as myself it causes X to restart and kicks me out. If
>>>> I login as a plain-jane user I am able to get in. How do I determine what is
>>>> actually causing the proble? I'm sure it has something to do with my user
>>>> config. If so, is there a way to remove the problem from root and how?
>>>>
>>>> Attached is the .xsession-erros log file from my home, I could not find
>>>> anything anywhere else.
>>>>
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Turned out to be the 3D acceleration. HD 5770 isn't fully supported yet. 
I had suspicions that it had something to do with that so I just removed 
all . files pertaining to compiz and I was able to get in. Unfortunately 
it left my desktop in a really bad way, that just made it difficult to 
use. Reinstalled F14 and I am in the process of gradually restoring app 
config settings and all. I hope they get the 3D working by F15, but I'm 
not going to hold my breath. No more transporter beam effects for now.