G'day,

Do you have an .xsession-error file in your home directory?
If so, it may give better clues.

cheerio Berndt

oinkfreebiker@att.net wrote
> Error message on ttyE0 after lock-up of KDM:
> 
> After 2nd re-entry of username and passwd to 
> graphical login, X crashes, and returns to locked-up 
> ttyE0. Not even CTRL-ALT-F2 etc will get another tty. 
> Must press hdwr reset button.
> 
> But can see, faintly, this message on ttyE0 after lockup 
> (there are some other things above, but don't look like 
> errors):
> 
> Error parsing config file: expected identifier on line 1 
> of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/X0-config.keyboard
> Could not init font path element 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ removing from list!
> 
> waiting for X server to shut d own X connection to :0.0 
> broken(explicit kill or server shutdown).
> xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X 
> server ":0.0"
> xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X 
> server ":0.0"
> 
> I go to look at the file X0-config.keyboard of the 
> parsing error with more, and it is binary. Is that right?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gan
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