Ahh, thx all for the help, however i fixed my problem, as the result of
a crash.
I tried the strace thing, with 2 xterms, and i got it to work, however
the part that appeared to be me logging in didn't show any clue as to
the problem, so i inted to try it again. I didn't get round to doing it
till yesterday anyway(or maybe the day before that - The days seem to
merge together :/), due my lazyness.
However, just now whilst playing Q3, i caused it(Q3) to crash, so i
killed it off from a terminal, which also took out X(well X restarted).
When i logged in through xdm, X crashed on me(Happens _alot_ to me, so
there is soemthing up with my X server, one of the reasons why i've been
intending to reinstall), and when i rebooted(and didn't skip on the disk
checking this time :)), i saw an error go by, about dri, in a file in
/etc/security. This made me remember something that happened... Well,
i'm not sure, but within the last 2 weeks anyway. When i went to play
games, i was getting a message about bad permissions with an nvidia
thing in /dev, and when checkingt he readme, it said that the
permissions were being changed by soemthing(i forget now... My memory
really is poor :(), however it said to find the appropriate file in
/etc, and comment out the dri part.
Of course it all clicked. I tried logging in through xdm, and it was
failing, so i uncommented the line i'd commented(which the nvidia readme
had said i should comment out :/), and pam works again(xdm and login
both work). I guess i should have remembered commenting out that line... :(
Oh well, it was Q3 that caused the problem int eh first place(well,
caused me to cause the problem ;)), and it was Q3 that fixed it(well, Q3
crashed, whether that helped is debatable) :D
Now there's just the issue with X... Is it alot of hassel to install a
new version of X? I have so much software residing in /usr/local/* as it
is, i decided i was going to try and stick with packages from now
on(well, then on :/).
Thanks for the help anyway guys,
Nathan.
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