What kind of video card and which drivers for it? I'm wondering if the driver permissions got hosed. Sent from my iPod Kris On Nov 22, 2009, at 21:59, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> 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... > > [drm:i810_wait_ring] *ERROR* lockup > [drm:i810_wait_ring] *ERROR* space 65520 wanted 65528 > > ...but then I can login from console and do whatever I want. What > do you > recommend? I went to my home directory to look for new files and > found > the file below called .xsession-errors. That might help so it is > displayed below. > > This guy has a similar situation to me (old dell, xubuntu 9.10) but > he had > an xorg.conf file and I don't have one: > > http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1311912 > > So I can't try his fix. > > Mike > > > ----begin ~/.xsession-errors on next line--------------- > /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... > Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US. > Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/ > xinit/xinput.d/default. > /usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0 > > ** (gnome-screensaver:1486): WARNING **: Failed to get session > presence proxy: Could not get owner of name > 'org.gnome.SessionManager': no such name > xfdesktop[1508]: starting up > gnome-screensaver: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on > X server :0.0. > xfce4-session: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X > server :0.0. > xfsettingsd: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X > server :0.0. > xfwm4: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. > Thunar: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server : > 0.0. > xfce4-panel: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X > server :0.0. > xfce4-settings-helper: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily > unavailable) on X server :0.0. > xfce4-menu-plugin: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on > X server :0.0. > xfce4-places-plugin: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily > unavailable) on X server :0.0. > The application 'xfdesktop' lost its connection to the display :0.0; > most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed > the application. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list