I'm hoping someone here has run into a similar problem. I lost power to my computer and when I restarted it I couldn't get back into the X session. I'm running Xubuntu 9.10. Basically, I enter the password, a few things happen and it asks for the password again. This continues iteratively until I'm too angry and tired to continue. When I go to Alt-F1 console, I see this... [drm:i810_wait_ring] *ERROR* lockup [drm:i810_wait_ring] *ERROR* space 65520 wanted 65528 ...but then I can login from console and do whatever I want. What do you recommend? I went to my home directory to look for new files and found the file below called .xsession-errors. That might help so it is displayed below. This guy has a similar situation to me (old dell, xubuntu 9.10) but he had an xorg.conf file and I don't have one: http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1311912 So I can't try his fix. Mike ----begin ~/.xsession-errors on next line--------------- /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US. Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default. /usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0 ** (gnome-screensaver:1486): WARNING **: Failed to get session presence proxy: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SessionManager': no such name xfdesktop[1508]: starting up gnome-screensaver: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. xfce4-session: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. xfsettingsd: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. xfwm4: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. Thunar: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. xfce4-panel: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. xfce4-settings-helper: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0. xfce4-menu-plugin: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. xfce4-places-plugin: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0. The application 'xfdesktop' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application.