Cannot log into SUSE linux using GUI

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I have SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.

I can ssh onto this using both root and normal user login details.

However, when I use the gui to log in, the screen appears to be letting me log in but then after about 15 seconds the login screen appears again. This happens everytime I try to log in again and again.

What could the problem be?
What log file I can tail to see what could be going wrong?

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Hi
Look at the file in your users home directory called .xsession-errors
(note the period at the beginning).

Normally that’s a video driver issue, have you started the system at
runlevel 3 and run sax2 to configure?

You could also create a test user and see if the issue replicates for
the test user.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.28-2.20-desktop
up 1:23, 4 users, load average: 0.39, 0.51, 0.54
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile

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Thanks for the reply.

I have created a test user and still the same problem.

I have looked at .xsession-errors and it tell me very little:

cat .xsession-errors
chown: changing ownership of /dev/xconsole': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of /dev/xconsole’: Operation not permitted
/etc/X11/xim: Checking whether an input method should be started.
/etc/X11/xim: use GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8
sourcing /etc/sysconfig/language to get the value of INPUT_METHOD
INPUT_METHOD is not set or empty (no user selected input method).
Trying to start a default input method for the locale en_US.UTF-8 …
There is no default input method for the current locale.
Dummy input method “none” (do not use any fancy input method by default)

** (gnome-session:19613): WARNING **: Cannot open display:

I have started at runlevel 3 and ran sax2. It says:
“The currently started graphics systemis based on a suggestion made by SaX2. If this is acceptable, click Ok, otherwise change the configuration.”

What should I change??

4

Hi
What graphics card do you have? Can you post the output from;

hwinfo --gfxcard

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.28-2.20-desktop
up 4:58, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.06, 0.22
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile

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hwinfo --gfxcard
30: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.323]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_95c5
Unique ID: VCu0.GIwFDtbMYr1
Parent ID: vSkL.lMv4CULX2F9
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: “ATI Radeon HD 3450”
Vendor: pci 0x1002 “ATI Technologies Inc”
Device: pci 0x95c5 “ATI Radeon HD 3450”
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 “Dell”
SubDevice: pci 0x0342
Driver: “radeon”
Driver Modules: “drm”
Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xfe9f0000-0xfe9fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
I/O Ports: 0xdc00-0xdcff (rw)
Memory Range: 0xfea00000-0xfea1ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
IRQ: 49 (27744 events)
I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
Module Alias: “pci:v00001002d000095C5sv00001028sd00000342bc03sc00i00”
Driver Info #0:
XFree86 v4 Server Module: radeon
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #10 (PCI bridge)

Primary display adapter: #30

Thanks

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Hi
Have a look at this thread on what I did for the HD3000 series
http://forums.suse.com/showthread.php?t=1530

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.28-2.20-desktop
up 5:21, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.06, 0.12
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile