I could not load the Gnome Terminal in my Suse 2.1 64 bit box after loading Entangle from the Suse repositories. This has prevented my running Evolution from the console to try and get some error messages. I rebooted my box in the hope of sanity returning, but now I get no display at all. Ctrl+Alt+F2 and tried to startx but got these messages: xauth: file /home/andrew/.serverauth.2041 does not exist xauth: file /home/andrew/.Xauthority does not exist xauth: file /home/andrew/.Xauthority does not exist Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again So I did that and things looked encouraging until it failed with a message Failed to load session"(null)" and offered a Logout button. The mouse was working but the button did not log me out and the box returned with the same message. How would I repair this so that the Gnome desktop would create new authority files? Andrew Greig