[NBLUG/talk] Blue Screen of... SuSE, part 2

[Mark Street, D.C.]

Wierd man.  Don't blame it on SUSE though.

Try to create a new user, login and startx and see if it goes.

Report back what happens.

> My problem reocurred, so I'm following up with the error messages that
> were printed to the console, and a possible clue.  When I boot the
> computer, I no longer get a graphical login screen, but it defaults to
> the blue console with a login propmt.  Maybe I've broken gdm somehow?
>
> Here's as much as I could get off the screen last time this happened
> (any typos are mine, as I could'nt cut & paste):
>
> FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0
> Window manager warning: Broken client! Window 0x1a00026 (mutt) changed

snip

>or you killed/destroyed the
> application
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit4: Connection to X server lost
> waiting for X server to shutdown
>
> [Then my user prompt appears]