On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 10:27:50PM +0000, Brian May wrote:
Sounds like the xsession is dying. In typical fashion, errors will most likely get logged to $HOME/.xsession-errors, but not shown to the user.
yep, looked there. no sign of any problem. i've also tried enabling the debugs option on various pam modules, but they seem OK...as you suggest, i'm pretty sure it's not an auth or login problem, but a session problem after login. i was kind of hoping that someone would know something really obvious and stupid about X / lightdm / x sessions / xfce / whatever that i didn't. no such luck.
Note this file will get overwritten if you login successfully, so you may have to use use a text mode console, or login as another user then sudo to root to access it.
as you say, it does get overwritten, and i did roughly what you suggested. no luck. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>