[SOLVED] X logs me out when I try to log in to scrotwm/spectrwm

Hi there,
Just updated, rebooted, and tried to log in. Usually I boot into a console, and type my name and password into the console and that logs me into my window manager (scrotwm, which has recently been renamed to spectrwm). spectrwm is started from the .xinitrc file.
Usually spectrwm just starts, but today I get a brief error message come up on the console when I try to log in, and then am logged back out again. The error message is too quick to see. When I log in as root (with no window manager), I can start twm from the console by typing `startx'.
Here are some files:
~/.xinitrc
exec spectrwm &
~/.xsession-errors
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
localuser:username being added to access control list
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- /usr/bin/scrotwm
Welcome to scrotwm V0.9.34 cvs tag: $scrotwm: scrotwm.c,v 1.356 2011/08/13 20:26:02 marco Exp $
color 'rgb:44/44/44 ' not found.
** Message: Can NOT connect to a existing LilyTerm socket!
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavaliable) on X server ":1:^M
after 689516 requests (689512 known processed) with 0 events remaining.^M
lilyterm: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temperately unavailable) on X server :1.
Conky: received SIGINT or SIGTERM to terminate. bye!
I have no idea where to start with this. twm works when I log in as root, so maybe it's a problem with spectrwm? but how can I find out?
If anyone has any suggestions about other logs/files I should check out, please let me know. I mentioned that an error message comes up on the console very quickly when I try to log in - I can't read it, is that error message written to a file somewhere? (It doesn't look similar to ~/.xsession-errors or /var/log/Xorg.0.log)
Thanks
Last edited by ElKatrina (2012-02-19 19:25:01)

OK, update, I filmed the error message with my phone (so that I could replay it in slow motion). It's just a few lines out of /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but these same lines are written when I (successfully) start twm when I am logged in as root.
So, I don't really have any other information to go on to track this down. Unbelievably, I deleted everything in my ~/.xinitrc file, and I still have the same problem

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