Re: Re: Password messed up

2010-05-09 Thread Don
Coming in late to this thread, but if your K desktop is OK, then you actually have this problem quite well isolated to something in the KDM log-in process. It's not X, and it's not your desktop itself. By the time KDM has switched over to you, it's writing errors into a file, ".xession-errors

Re: Re: Password messed up

2010-05-07 Thread Don
I posted this earlier today but did not see it come across in email, so I am re-posting. Excuse if this is a duplicate! Thanks... Original Message Subject: Re: Re: Password messed up Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 15:13:14 -0500 From: Don To: debian-user@lists.debian.org References

Re: Re: Password messed up

2010-05-06 Thread Don
So review your "/var/log/syslog", "/var/log/auth.log" and "~/.xession- errors", there should be something in there saying why the login fails :-? What desktop are you using (GNOME, KDE...)? Greetings, -- Camaleón (Sorry for the delay, but unavoidable) I am using KDE4 desktop. Reviewing the

Re: Re: Password messed up

2010-05-04 Thread Don AE5K
How about "cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep Layout"? Anyway, unless otherwise specified, Xorg defaults to "us" keyboard. An easy way to check if the problem relies in your keyboard layout (or the problem comes from another side), is by creating a new user with password "123456" (an easy one t

Re: Re: Password messed up

2010-05-04 Thread Don AE5K
First idea would be keyboard country in X, but I bet you thought about that? Thierry Thanks for the idea Thierry! As I'm in the U.S., I plead ignorance on what other countries must go through to make changes -- could you give me direction on how to check the "keyboard country" in X? I see i