Display problem

[Tony Godshall]

According to Blue Boar,
> Les Kopari wrote:
> 
> >After bootup, the login screen keeps repeating it's
> >prompt after entering valid login info.  Each time,
> >the Gnome 1.4 splash comes up, the 21" crt goes black,
> >clicks and I'm at the login again.  The splash seems
> >to show 4 or 5 icons being highlighted...then nothing.
> 
> Yes, I've seen it.  X is crashing.  The init process will try to restart it 
> several times.  It will typically give you some useful error messages... 
> which you can't see while it's doing the flashing, check the logs.  Log in 
> (if you can) and set the runlevel to a non-X setting, and try using startx 
> to manually troubleshoot (you'll be able to see the messages then.)

I find 'X -probeonly' more useful for troubleshooting,
generally as 'X -probeonly > x-errs 2>&1' .