can not launch any window manager after system crash -- solved

[B Thomas]

Thank you for all your help.

It turned out that on reinstalling libxdmcp6 the problem
got fixed.

I don't understand why but that just worked.

regards
thomas

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:16:52PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
> Try deleting .Xauthority.  (I'm just guessing...)
> 
> Otherwise, it might be /usr/lib/libXau.* - that's the one that reads
> .Xauthority.
> 
> Also fsck your file systems if you haven't.
> 
> ld.so searches your library path for every library no matter what.
> 
> -- 
> Bob Miller                              K<bob>
>                                         kbob at jogger-egg.com