RE: [SLE] Unable to login on VT
Jerry Feldman
Michal Milos
wrote: Hello!
I have a problem with logging on my VT's. When I press ctrl+alt+F{1,2,...,6} and enter in "login:" line "root" (or another local user login), the screen is refreshing and nothing happens. My SuSE is 9.0 Pro. If anybody knows this problem, please help.
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As I said above,
Jerry Feldman
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:34:35 +0100 "Flavio Meazza"
wrote: have a problem with logging on my VT's. When I press ctrl+alt+F{1,2,...,6} and enter in "login:" line "root" (or another local user login), the screen is refreshing and nothing happens. My SuSE is 9.0 Pro. If anybody knows this problem, please help.
Please be a bit more specific. Are you saying that the user enters the login and password information then the screen clears and post another login prompt??? Or, does the screen not clear. Or, does it return you to the graphics screen.
After doing the login on a VT, what is the result of lastlog. That should tell you if the login was successful.
Also, your /etc/inittab file should contain: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
Note that 2-6 will clear the screen after a logout, but 1 is set not to clear because it contains the console log.
This is all I can think of at the present time. There are some options on mingetty, but I don't think they are that useful.
Also, you might make sure that you have the appropriate shell and home directories set up, but you would then see this problem on a Konsole or Xterm.
The problem could very well be a bug in one of the login scripts. It is possible that /etc/profile /etc/profile.local are messed up.
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 19:30:40 -0500 GarUlbricht7@netscape.net wrote:
I added Jerry's post because it apperaed to me the someone had "hi-jacked" the thread -- and Jerry had replied to the hi-jacked mail. Thanks, I noticed that after I hit send.
Jerry Feldman
GarUlbricht7@netscape.net wrote:
Or, does the screen not clear. Or, does it return you to the graphics screen.
I'm hitting ALT+CTRL+F2. Then I see a black screen with login prompt ("Welcome to... bla bla bla... mach3 login:"). When I enter my login name (root, krasnall, or anything) and hit ENTER, the terminal is "reloading" and I can see welcome information and "mach3 login:" line. When I'm using Konsole, it's OK. Also, /var/log/warn contains: "Feb 7 13:57:08 mach3 mingetty[17311]: tty2: can't exec /bin/login: No such file or directory" It's true, there is no /bin/login... Please, tell me what I have to do to get this working back. Thanks! -- [ Pozdrawiam, Michał Miłoś :: Krasnall ] [ Linux & Open Source Software powered ] [ Więcej o mnie na: http://Krasnall.TK ]
On Saturday 07 February 2004 13:05 pm, Michal Milos wrote:
GarUlbricht7@netscape.net wrote:
Or, does the screen not clear. Or, does it return you to the graphics screen.
I'm hitting ALT+CTRL+F2. Then I see a black screen with login prompt ("Welcome to... bla bla bla... mach3 login:").
When I enter my login name (root, krasnall, or anything) and hit ENTER, the terminal is "reloading" and I can see welcome information and "mach3 login:" line.
When I'm using Konsole, it's OK.
Also, /var/log/warn contains: "Feb 7 13:57:08 mach3 mingetty[17311]: tty2: can't exec /bin/login: No such file or directory"
It's true, there is no /bin/login...
Please, tell me what I have to do to get this working back. Thanks!
That program is in the package shadow, according to pin. Make sure it's installed and try again... Dylan
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