I had this problem a few weeks ago. I also could not login as any user by any means, however I could login as root. After about a week and a few responses to my post here I gave up, backed up all home directories and reinstalled woody. I would love to know what happened and how to fix it.
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 18:13, John Lord wrote: > On Tuesday 09 April 2002 5:06 pm, Nick Hall wrote: > > I'm running XFree86 4.1.0.1 and Gnome. A couple days ago I did > > apt-get upgrade (I was running testing) and it upgraded some > > packages. The next day when I started my computer it started > > into X and the username/password box came up, but after I > > typed in my info the screen went black for a fraction of > > a second and then returned to the username/pass prompt. If I > > type in an incorrect password it doesn't go black and > > immediately gives the incorrect login message so it looks > > like the problem is that after it has verified the login > > is correct, it tries to run whatever component of X or > > Gnome that is supposed to and that is failing. I don't see > > any errors in either /var/log/xdm.log or /var/log/XFree86.0.log. > > Yesterday I dist-upgraded to unstable to see if any upgrades > > of packages would fix the problem but they didn't. Does anyone > > have any suggestions? Like where I should look to debug this? > > If I saw where the problem lied in a log file I could begin > > to figure out how to fix it, but as is, I have no idea what > > the problem is, whether its in X or Gnome. Thanks a lot for > > any help, > > > > Nick > > > I don't know if this will fix it, but check that you havn't run out of space > on the partition. I have had this after upgrading, because I had simple > filled up the hd, and the logs (i presume) couldn't be written. > > Once freeing up some space all worked again :-) > > > -- > Cheers.... John > > Amiga A1200 PPC running Linux/Apus Debian and KDE2.* > Web site http://www.lordofchaos.co.uk > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
