Can't login!

[micahh2]

It seems I have done it again, I cant login to my primary account. Near as i can tell it logs me in but instantly logs me out. I believe this first happened after I locked the screen for the first time after installing Mint 8.

I can login to root
I'm on a new temporary account that i set up through root.
My hard drive is not full.
I hear the login sound just before it kicks me back to the login screen
I am pretty sure that I am not miss typing my password

I hope you guys can help! I love Linux Mint 8, its a sheer joy to work with.

[Husse]

From the root account delete the .ICEauthority file in home and .Xauthority too if it exists
Reboot and there's a good chance you can log in
One reason for this to happen is to use sudo with a GUI app like gedit and not gksudo

[micahh2]

No dice, nothing seems to have changed. Thanks for your help though!

[micahh2]

Scratch that, in a attempt to figure out what was wrong I tried to login to a KDE environment instead of Gnome. Once i realized i could do that, i remembered that i had disabled the account's administrator status and that one of the start up items i had added had the command "sudo" in it. Off topic but how would one run an application as root when it logs in without using gksudo and typing in my password every time?

[micahh2]

Should I start another thread?

[micahh2]

It appears that I have a real knack for solving my own problem minuets after posting... any way i fixed it, the *.conf file of the start up program was owned by root making me have to run it as root. I just opened the folder as root and changed it's permissions.
Thank you for all your help! I love Linux Mint!

[Husse]

Which conf file did you change?