After that first login attempt there may have been useful info in .xsession-errors in your home directory. It's probably just the Mandrake First Time Wizard failing.
--- Frank Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After the install, having selected "Start X at > boot", gdm comes up as > expected. But if I try to log on, the gdm prompt > disappears, and then > it looks like X restarts (screen goes black, then > gdm login prompt > reappears). If I try a second time, the login works > fine. > > I don't see any obvious errors in /var/log/syslog or > > /var/log/XFree.0.log, and nothing shows up in the > xconsole window either. > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com