I am pasting together a couple e-mails here and it's late, so my apologies if something doesn't make sense.

This is not a GNOME issue since I install KDE and that doesn't work either, but I was trying to fix a 915resolution issue I was having with the resolution being funky after hibernation (worked fine otherwise)

I also did 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and that didn't fix either issue, though it did appear to update the kernel.

When I try to 'startx' from any account other than root, I get the following error:

'waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath:FPE "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing it'

When I boot up (I do the super secure, auto login) I get the error

'GDM could not write to your authorization file. Thus could mean that you are out of disk space or that your home directory could not be opened for writing. In any case, it is not possible to log in. Please contact your system administrator.'

at some point I was actually able to log in and I got this error:

'Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, thus could mean that there is some installation problem or that you may be out of disk space. Try loggin in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem.

*box* view details (~/.xsession-errors file)'

and that errors file says...

'/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
mkdtemprivate socket dir: Permission denied'


Possibly it's a permission issue, but that's the case for ALL the users other than root. Very strange. I even created a new admin user.

On the Carolina Open Source Initiative list I got the suggestion to use fsck, but I'm not sure how that would help.

I also saw this error message:
'xauth: error in locking authority file /home/whitdoug/.Xauthority'

I tried to do something with the login screens (I can't remember what, it's late), but I got this error message:
'an error occurred while trying to contact the login screens. Not all updates may have taken effect'.

One of the things I installed trying to fix the hibernation issue was acpi_support_0.91build2_i386.deb, but I wasn't exactly sure what I was doing, I was just following some instructions. I'd get the post on ubuntuforums I was looking at, but that's more difficult since I'm not logged on to my account any more....and I'm tired. I'll look into it more tomorrow.