can not launch any window manager after system crash

[Bob Miller]

B Thomas wrote:

> As suggested by Bob I saved the strace output (listed below).
> All I can tell is xinit segfaults immediately after accessing
> .Xauthority. But am not sure why there are so many failed
> library access . I did run ldconfig on seeing this but
> it made no difference.

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.

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Bob Miller                              K<bob>
                                        kbob at jogger-egg.com