Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:31:21 -0600 Seb wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded my sid system on my desktop and laptop this morning and > restarted only to find out I get straight into a console login, not > the usual KDM login window. The upgraded included the latest kernel > image p

Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

31/01/2012 21:52, Seb wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:36:09 +0100, > Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > >> Hi Seb >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 02:31:21PM -0600, Seb wrote: >>> I upgraded my sid system on my desktop and laptop this morning and >>> restarted only to

Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:36:09 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi Seb > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 02:31:21PM -0600, Seb wrote: >> I upgraded my sid system on my desktop and laptop this morning and >> restarted only to find out I get straight into a console login, not >

Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 20:36, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: >> Is anyone else experiencing this? How about checking X's log? Or kdm's? -- "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

Hi Seb On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 02:31:21PM -0600, Seb wrote: > I upgraded my sid system on my desktop and laptop this morning and > restarted only to find out I get straight into a console login, not the > usual KDM login window. The upgraded included the latest kernel image > package

only console login after latest sid upgrade

Hi, I upgraded my sid system on my desktop and laptop this morning and restarted only to find out I get straight into a console login, not the usual KDM login window. The upgraded included the latest kernel image package (3.2.0) and thought that might be the culprit so installed the previous

Re: console login : number of access failures

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:18:23PM +0100, daniele pendenza wrote: > 1- by default on our Debian system after a successful login through a > tty we are presented with the number of failures (unsuccesful logins) > that took place before using the same login name.For a non root user > this number

Re: console login : number of access failures

daniele pendenza wrote: Hi lists, But what about the root user ? That number is "correct" unless no one tried to do "su logins" (login using the command su). Do you think that su-logins must be considered as "general logins" and then the super user must know how many unsuccessful "su-logins" t

console login : number of access failures

Hi lists, 1- by default on our Debian system after a successful login through a tty we are presented with the number of failures (unsuccesful logins) that took place before using the same login name.For a non root user this number is correct. But what about the root user ? That number is "c

Re: Console Login of kdm disappeared after upgrade to Etch

es, yes, I know. Alt-F2, log on, su, etc. I just wanted to make sure the kdm init script is working as I would expect it to. So, your reply implies that you've done this and it works. Good. (You can also do this from within a terminal window within X.) No, I was 1. hoping for a way to get

Re: Console Login of kdm disappeared after upgrade to Etch

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:44:57PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > I did the upgrade, with some minor problems on X. > In order to debug it, I need a console login. Alas, kdm has lost the > 'Console Login' option here. Also, X cannot be killed with a series of > Ctrl-Alt-Backspa

Re: Console Login of kdm disappeared after upgrade to Etch

hear ! - Yes, yes, I know. Alt-F2, log on, su, etc. How ugly. No, I was 1. hoping for a way to get Console Login back 2. trying to understand, what 'kdm stop' does. It does: # kdm stop # but doesn't stop it. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Console Login of kdm disappeared after upgrade to Etch

On 4/10/07, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did the upgrade, with some minor problems on X. In order to debug it, I need a console login. Alas, kdm has lost the 'Console Login' option here. Also, X cannot be killed with a series of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace any longer, it ca

Console Login of kdm disappeared after upgrade to Etch

I did the upgrade, with some minor problems on X. In order to debug it, I need a console login. Alas, kdm has lost the 'Console Login' option here. Also, X cannot be killed with a series of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace any longer, it came back here for surely 30 times. I tried 'init 3&#

Re: Console Login

Kent West wrote: > Robert Wolfe wrote: > > >>Hi alL! What would I need to get both of my Debian 3.1 boxes to boot >>to a console mode login prompt instead of going to a GUI login after >>booting up? >> >> > > As stated at the beginning of this thread, remove any login managers you > have instal

Re: Console Login

Robert Wolfe wrote: > Hi alL! What would I need to get both of my Debian 3.1 boxes to boot > to a console mode login prompt instead of going to a GUI login after > booting up? > > As stated at the beginning of this thread, remove any login managers you have installed; "aptitude purge wdm gdm xdm

Console Login

Hi alL! What would I need to get both of my Debian 3.1 boxes to boot to a console mode login prompt instead of going to a GUI login after booting up? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Console Login

Thx ppl, it boots into console mode now! -- No place like ~/

Re: Console Login

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:20:19PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Mr Mike: > > > > another alternative is to edit your /etc/inittab and change your > > default runlevel to something other than gui with network... then if > > you need gui, just do init 5 at the cli.. > > That won't work with D

Re: Console Login

Mr Mike: > > another alternative is to edit your /etc/inittab and change your > default runlevel to something other than gui with network... then if > you need gui, just do init 5 at the cli.. That won't work with Debian. Debian boots everything already in runlevel 2. J. -- I am on the pay

Re: Console Login

Paul E Condon wrote: >On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:36:30PM -0400, Strake wrote: > > >>I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical >>environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts >>again. How do I boot into console mode? >> >> > >There are three display

Re: Console Login

On 06/11/2005 11:36:30 AM, Strake wrote: I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts again. How do I boot into console mode? -- No place like ~/ You shouldn't have to remove your GUI's or login managers.. Som

Re: Console Login

Strake writes: > But I still want to be able to start them with startx, i dont want them > to be gone. Startx and a display manager such as kdm are two different ways of starting X. If you use startx you don't need a display manager. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Console Login

Thx, it works now! On 6/11/05, Angelina Carlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:20:43PM -0400, Strake wrote: > > But I still want to be able to start them with startx, i dont want > > them to be gone. > > > > you still will be able to startx, kdm, gdm are only *logon manag

Re: Console Login

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:20:43PM -0400, Strake wrote: > But I still want to be able to start them with startx, i dont want > them to be gone. > you still will be able to startx, kdm, gdm are only *logon managers* they allow you to graphically logon to your computer. Removing them will leave you

Re: Console Login

But I still want to be able to start them with startx, i dont want them to be gone. On 6/11/05, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:36:30PM -0400, Strake wrote: > > I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical > > environment and even when I kill it

Re: Console Login

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:36:30PM -0400, Strake wrote: > I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical > environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts > again. How do I boot into console mode? One way is to remove the display manager package that is installe

Re: Console Login

Strake wrote: I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts again. How do I boot into console mode? Remove your session manager (gdm, kdm, xdm etc.) or temporarily disable it by moving or turning off its init s

Console Login

I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts again. How do I boot into console mode? -- No place like ~/

Re: Suspected system compromise (was: Re: console login fails)

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:46:56AM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > My favourite file was the last one ... I mean, the crontab one. > Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suspected system compromise (was: Re: console login fails)

n, there weren't old enough logs, and perhaps some were removed, but let's just say security wasn't "stellar". It had been compromised for 73 days before I got around to fixing what I thought was just a bug in the virtual console login. It was a home gateway, and a desktop

Suspected system compromise (was: Re: console login fails)

on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:25:13PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:12:48PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > > I'm having trouble logging into tty1-tty6. > > > > I get a prompt, put in my username and hit enter, and then > > it hangs for 10 seconds wi

Re: console login fails

Patrick Lesslie wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:29:46AM -0600, Kent West wrote: What are the permissions on './bin/login'? -rw-rw-rw-1 root root0 Oct 9 09:36 /bin/login I think I see the problem here. It's empty. :-} So getty is timing out. However if I try to mov

Re: console login fails

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:29:46AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Can you login as a different user? As root? No. (I can login to X, or via ssh though). > Are any of your partitions mounted read-only? /dev/hda10 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) > Have you fsck'd your partitions lately? fsck ha

Re: console login fails

Patrick Lesslie wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:12:48PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: I'm having trouble logging into tty1-tty6. I get a prompt, put in my username and hit enter, and then it hangs for 10 seconds without asking for a password, and brings up another login prompt. Having

Re: console login fails

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:12:48PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > I'm having trouble logging into tty1-tty6. > > I get a prompt, put in my username and hit enter, and then > it hangs for 10 seconds without asking for a password, > and brings up another login prompt. Having done a bit more rese

console login fails

Hi, I'm having trouble logging into tty1-tty6. I get a prompt, put in my username and hit enter, and then it hangs for 10 seconds without asking for a password, and brings up another login prompt. Has anyone seen this? I'm having trouble finding relevant hits. thx, Patrick Lesslie -- To

Re: Console login banner appears twice

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:27:41AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I recently setup a new machine with Woody, and I think I changed something > that causes the console login banner to appear twice when logging locally > or remotely via SSH. Make sure that 'PrintMotd no'

Console login banner appears twice

I recently setup a new machine with Woody, and I think I changed something that causes the console login banner to appear twice when logging locally or remotely via SSH. Basically what I get is this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux isl 2.4.21-1 #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 20:33:28 EDT

Re: Console Login/Auth ~= GDM/KDM Login/Auth

Have you enabled shadow passwords ? kdm and gdm are looking for them, while your console login does not. Michel. Em Dom, 2002-06-23 às 11:14, Randolph S. Kahle escreveu: > Mark, > > Thank you for the reply. > > I have studied the files in /etc/pam.d and I am not sure I can fi

Re: Console Login/Auth ~= GDM/KDM Login/Auth

Mark, Thank you for the reply. I have studied the files in /etc/pam.d and I am not sure I can figure out what is wrong. Here are the files: login - auth requisite pam_securetty.so auth requisite pam_nologin.so auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_unix.so

Re: Console Login/Auth ~= GDM/KDM Login/Auth

On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 15:28, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I have just installed Woody from CDROM images. I can log on via the > console as root and as a normal user. All is fine. > > When I run GDM (or the KDE login manager), when I enter a valid user and > password, it rejects it. > > Why are thes

Console Login/Auth ~= GDM/KDM Login/Auth

I have just installed Woody from CDROM images. I can log on via the console as root and as a normal user. All is fine. When I run GDM (or the KDE login manager), when I enter a valid user and password, it rejects it. Why are these operating differently? Am I going through different authenticatio

Re: startx immediately after console login

also sprach Rob VanFleet (on Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:55:58AM -0500): > I also tried the method of calling startx that automatically logs you > out of the console, i.e.: > > startx -- :1 1>.startx.log 2>&1 & exit > > which does log me out of the console, but also doesn't bring up x (it > seems

Re: [SOLVED] startx immediately after console login

As Lukas Ruf so kindly pointed out to me, I was missing the obvious that my terms were still parsing /etc/profile each time they were ran, so I added a condition to check whether $DISPLAY contains a value or not, and run 'startx && exit' if $DISPLAY is empty. -Rob

startx immediately after console login

I am trying to figure out the best method to automatically startx after a user logs in from the console. I know I could accomplish easily by using a graphical display manager, but I would prefer to avoid that if at all possible. I have tried a couple of methods thus far, with less than satisfacto

Re: 1. gpm and Gnome / 2. console login<->graphical login

You could remove the gpm links from /etc/rc?.d to keep gpm from starting. Or you could remove gpm using 'dpkg --remove gpm'. (gpm is a console-mode mouse driver; some people like it a lot.) SA> 2. at the end of the boot-strap I have a graphical login. SA> How can avoid the starting

1. gpm and Gnome / 2. console login<->graphical login

and have a console login? In this case how can I start Gnome? Thanks for your help Sergio Andreozzi

Re: Can I use sendmail with having a console login

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 02:05:52PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > hello guys, > Im running sendmail and would like to give email accounts to my entire > office but do not want to give them a login to access the server via > console, ftp, ssh etc. Can this be done? Can I give a email account without >

Can I use sendmail with having a console login

hello guys, Im running sendmail and would like to give email accounts to my entire office but do not want to give them a login to access the server via console, ftp, ssh etc. Can this be done? Can I give a email account without a home directory account? Thanks

Re: Enabling Serial Port Console Login

type and you should be able to see if serial ports are available to you. You have to uncomment one of the terminal lines in /etc/inittab. The connect speed on your terminal (or PC pretending to be one) must be the same. The text-terminal howto has many diagrams for mak

Re: Enabling Serial Port Console Login

No need to recompile the kernel. Your kernel should either have serial port support compiled in or in a module. On your server try 'cat /dev/ttyS0' If you get an error: cat: /dev/ttyS0: No such device Then your kernel doens't have support. Otherwise it does. Now you just need to run a getty on

Re: Enabling Serial Port Console Login

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 04:13:38PM +0900, Peter Kim wrote: > I need to be able to login to my Linux web server, via a communications > server (Portmaster). The communications server will be connected to web > server with a serial cable. I guess you can use "SLIP" or also "PPP" for this. #zless /

Re: Enabling Serial Port Console Login

don't think you need to recompile the kernel what did you do to try to connect? take a look at /etc/inittab if you haven't already it shows some examples for setting up a console on a serial port. make sure its the right kind of cable too, you mentioned using a cross cable ?? shouldn't it be just

Enabling Serial Port Console Login

I need to be able to login to my Linux web server, via a communications server (Portmaster). The communications server will be connected to web server with a serial cable. I've connected my PC to my web server's serial port (COM1) and (COM2) with a cross cable and tried to login with Tera Term.

console login messed up, works in X

Hi, I'm recovering from file system corruption. I think, I restored all packages, but ran into this problem: I can't log in on console as root. When logging in as a regular user, I get my usual shell (bash), but the keyboard is not configured for germany. Also, I can't su to root. Login in X wor