Two things: 1) Try loging in at a virtual console. Do a CTRL+ALT+F1, and it will give you a prompt. Try logging in, and see what it tells you.
2) Login as root, and check out what's going on in /var/log/messages. Find out what the error message is and then we can go from there. The message log might tell you something that you can just fix, if not, send us some of that output or relay your findings to us, and maybe we can help. tdh -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Hi, | | I run Mandrake7.1 with KDE as desktop environment and suddenly got the | following problem. | When I try to log on using the X grafical interface I enter my userid | and | password, I hear some disk activity, but a few seconds later the login | screen appears again, without indicating an error. It is not possible | to login with any ordinary user. I can however login with root from this | | login screen. | It worked correctly untill a few days ago, and I did not make any | modification to the | system, nor installed new programs. | | | When I boot with runlevel 3, normal character interface, I can login | with both root and a normal user and all seem to work well. | | Somebody can give me a hint on how to solve this | | /Antoine | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -----------------------------Uptime ------------------------------- 10:37AM up 25 days, 23:16, 3 users, load averages: 0.05, 0.04, 0.01 -------------------------------------------------------------------
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