On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > 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. It seems to be getting the name because it shows it on the login screen. Mike