Hello: Im rather new at Fedora and have a problem I cant figure out. I have a fairly new install of Fedora Core 5 that was working great. I was running a program as root and it messed up a bit so I rebooted. After rebooting I was not able to log on as root any longer, but can log on using other accounts. The error message is: "Your session lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean...." The details explain that: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC_COOKIE-1 key I tried deleting my /root/.ICEauthority file but no help. I also uninstalled and reinstalled gdm but no help. I see that lots of people have this problem, but no clear answers and without help I dont think I will be able to solve mine. Any help would be appreciated. JJ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com