X11 won't start

[cliff here]

i have, and I found this

this is /var/log/gdm

** (process:2220): DEBUG: Greeter session pid=2220 display=:0.0
xauthority=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-H2QyqS/database
Failed to play sound: File or data not found

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2223): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot
register existing type `_PolkitError'

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2223): GLib-CRITICAL **:
g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with
a timestamp of 0 for 0x120002b (Login Wind)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0
timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with
a timestamp of 0 for 0x120002b (Login Wind)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0
timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with
a timestamp of 0 for 0x120002b (Login Wind)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0
timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus
window may not be correct.
Window manager warning: Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with a
timestamp of 0.  This shouldn't happen!
^C


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:04 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> > I'm having an issue when I try to login to XServer; on my KDE desktop if
> I
> > try and provide my credentials it spits me back out to the login prompt,
> > //var/log/messages says:
> >
> > Localhost pam: gdm-password[1888]: pam_unix(gdm-password: session:
> session
> > opened for user by (uid=0)
> >
> > So i know that the authencation isn't failing because I can login to run
> > level 3 just fine, it's the gui that flickers restarts. I've checked the
> > xorg logs and there doesn't seem to be anything unusal in them.
>
> Hmmm... uid 0? Are you logging in as root? Is it set up to refuse to allow
> root to log in? Have you checked /var/log/secure?
>
>        mark
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