Xwindows question (similar but not the same as previous)

Hi,

Solaris installed fine and can log in as root, but not with my other usercode, the screen flickers and then goes back to the login prompt. I can login from the command line.

Someone suggested that my mistake was logging in as root 1st (I got over excited and didn't think), so I've made a home for root and moved all that I could find that got created on the root log in to there and removed all the contents of /tmp and rebooted. I seriously suspect that the are right, but it didn't work, I just don't know what to do next to fix this.

If you can, please help! Regards, Maria

[610 byte] By [mazerma] at [2007-11-27 2:56:19]
# 1
Well I spent ages on this but the only thing that fixed it was a complete reinstall.I know it was a mistake to log in as root, through the gui, but it should have been a fixable error surely?Maria
mazerma at 2007-7-12 3:33:54 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 2

I ran into similiar problems when I did some changes to the standard login shell of root.

logging in as root through gui never screwed up any of my systems.

did you change /bin/sh to something else in your passwd or in your .profile ?

I used to chain to /bin/bash by executing

exec /bin/bash

in my .profile

this will kill your login gui for sure.

Dogbert_2003a at 2007-7-12 3:33:54 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...