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Your last session lasted less then 10 seconds

Asked by Tim B.

Hi there, I get a wicked error when I login over the login screen that ubuntu provides.

It says "Your last session was less then 10 seconds" basically. And then it restarts the X server and puts me back to the login screen. Now I booted with failsafemode that GRUB provides me, so I´m writing an Request here.

Im pretty new to Linux, so where can I find the logfiles to provide you with more information? I remember it said something like "dev/x couldnt be created" or something in the more detailed errormessage.

Thanks for this great tool here, looks really good. Bye Tim

EDIT: The error says something about "~/xsession-errors" but I cant find it. Would it help?

EDIT II: I managed to find the file and access it, here is .xsession-errors
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "tim"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
_IceTransTransNoListen: unable to find transport: tcp
_IceTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /dev/X will not be created.
_IceTransmkdir: ERROR: Cannot create /dev/X
_IceTransPTSOpenServer: mkdir(/dev/X) failed, errno = 13
_IceTransOpen: transport open failed for pts/ubuntu:
_IceTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for pts
_IceTransISCOpenServer: Protocol is not supported by a ISC connection
_IceTransOpen: transport open failed for isc/ubuntu:
_IceTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for isc
_IceTransSCOOpenServer: Protocol is not supported by a SCO connection
_IceTransOpen: transport open failed for sco/ubuntu:
_IceTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for sco

** (gnome-session:7682): WARNING **: Unable to read ICE authority file: /home/tim/.ICEauthority

Does this make sense to anyone?

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magilus (magilus) said : 		#1

Please press CTRL + ALT + F1 and login. The password will not be displayed. Then type

rm -r /home/tim/.ICEauthority

and press enter.

After that press CTRL + ALT + F7 and login again. You should be able to login again.

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lowest.common.denominator (michael-sharpe) said : 		#2

Same thing happened to me. Fix worked fine.

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jebush (jebush12003-peoplepc) said : 		#3

I too am getting a similiar error when I try to log in. The first screen that comes up is the error "Home directory listed as '/home/(my login name)/' does not appear to exist" which goes to error message Your $HOME/.dmrc has incorrect permissions & being ignored...file should be owned by user and have 644 permissions". After logging in it takes me to the xsession~error screen. I can get to a terminal screen but don't know what to put in it to boot up. Anything other than that just takes me back to the login page. I have tried the fixes reccomended from this note, # 487 and the one from Yanski on note 4258 and neither on worked for me.
As a note to this, I have four partitions on my drive (three primary parts and a swap for linux) with Win98SE installed first, Ubuntu on the second, and another Linux OS on the third. Before I installed the other Linux OS, the system worked fine with the Win98 and the Ubuntu. I did not start having this problem until I installed the third OS (the second Linux). Does anyone have a solution?
Thanks. jebush

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tkoopa (tkoopa) said : 		#4

I had a similar problem not being able to log in to the default GNOME session ( "your last session lasted less than 10 seconds" message). The problem came from the fact that I had created a .profile symlink linking to .bashrc. unlink .profile fixed the problem for me

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James Thorrold (jthorrold) said : 		#5

I now also have this error :( this started when i was logged in as root, i clicked on the user switcher tool and right clicked on my own user name, this then displayed the login screen, i put all my details in and this error message popped up, since then i haven't been able to log in. Martin, your solution doesn't work for me.... i'm completely stumped :(

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Craig Harding (craigwharding) said : 		#6

After logging into xfce I get the same warning dialog popup. Once I click OK I getted automatically logged out of my session and back to the login prompt.

The package manager upgraded my xserver-xorg-core package this morning before I shutdown and rebooted.

I will try the above fix in the above comment regarding the .ICEauthority file to see if it works.

Using xubuntu 8.04.

Details from dpkg.log:
---------------------------------
2008-06-14 08:23:28 startup archives unpack
2008-06-14 08:23:46 upgrade deskbar-applet 2.22.1-0ubuntu1 2.22.2.1-0ubuntu1
2008-06-14 08:23:46 status half-configured deskbar-applet 2.22.1-0ubuntu1
2008-06-14 08:23:59 status unpacked deskbar-applet 2.22.1-0ubuntu1
2008-06-14 08:24:13 status half-installed deskbar-applet 2.22.1-0ubuntu1
2008-06-14 08:24:15 status half-installed deskbar-applet 2.22.1-0ubuntu1
2008-06-14 08:24:21 status unpacked deskbar-applet 2.22.2.1-0ubuntu1
2008-06-14 08:24:21 status unpacked deskbar-applet 2.22.2.1-0ubuntu1
2008-06-14 08:24:21 upgrade xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9.2
2008-06-14 08:24:21 status half-configured xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9
2008-06-14 08:24:21 status unpacked xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9
2008-06-14 08:24:21 status half-installed xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9
2008-06-14 08:24:22 status half-installed xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9
2008-06-14 08:24:22 status unpacked xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9.2
2008-06-14 08:24:22 status unpacked xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9.2
2008-06-14 08:24:23 startup packages configure
2008-06-14 08:24:23 configure deskbar-applet 2.22.2.1-0ubuntu1 2.22.2.1-0ubuntu1
2008-06-14 08:24:23 status unpacked deskbar-applet 2.22.2.1-0ubuntu1
2008-06-14 08:24:23 status half-configured deskbar-applet 2.22.2.1-0ubuntu1
2008-06-14 08:24:38 status installed deskbar-applet 2.22.2.1-0ubuntu1
2008-06-14 08:24:42 configure xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9.2 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9.2
2008-06-14 08:24:42 status unpacked xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9.2
2008-06-14 08:24:42 status unpacked xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9.2
2008-06-14 08:24:42 status half-configured xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9.2
2008-06-14 08:24:42 status installed xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9.2

My .xsession-errors file:
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/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_CA.
Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default.
/usr/bin/xmodmap: unable to open file '/usr/share/apps/kxkb/ubuntu.xmodmap' for reading
/usr/bin/xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.
/usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0
xrdb: "Xft.hinting" on line 9 overrides entry on line 6
xrdb: "Xft.hintstyle" on line 10 overrides entry on line 7
** Message: Querying XINPUT extension
** Message: XINPUT extension found
** Message: Querying Xkb extension
** Message: Xkb extension found
** Message: Querying XF86Misc extension
** Message: XF86Misc extension found
** Message: Querying Xkb extension
** Message: Xkb extension found

** (orage:7482): WARNING **: Default timezone set to floating. Do not use timezones when setting appointments, it does not make sense without proper local timezone.

(xfce4-session:7456): libxfce4util-CRITICAL **: Failed to parse file /home/charding/.config/autostart/tracker-applet.desktop, ignoring.

(xfce4-session:7456): libxfce4util-CRITICAL **: Failed to parse file /home/charding/.config/autostart/trackerd.desktop, ignoring.

(xfce4-session:7456): libxfce4util-CRITICAL **: Failed to parse file /home/charding/.config/autostart/kpowersave.desktop, ignoring.

Tracker version 0.6.6 Copyright (c) 2005-2007 by Jamie McCracken (<email address hidden>)

This program is free software and comes without any warranty.
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Initialising tracker...
Could not set idle IO priority...attempting best effort 7 priority
Connection failure: Connection refused

(xfce4-session:7456): libxfce4util-CRITICAL **: Failed to parse file /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-power-manager.desktop, ignoring.

(xfce4-session:7456): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_string_chunk_insert: assertion `chunk != NULL' failed

(xfce4-session:7456): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_string_chunk_insert: assertion `chunk != NULL' failed

(xfdesktop:7470): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error

(xfdesktop:7470): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session manager.

(orage:7482): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error

(orage:7482): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session manager.
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 7483, errno = 11
Segmentation fault

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Craig Harding (craigwharding) said : 		#7

Following the fix to rm .ICEauthority does not work, I still get the error dialog window

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