Do you mean it tells you "login incorrect"? Doesn't it prompt you for a password? Do you see the Password: prompt at all ? On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Chris Davies wrote:

I used a machine set up with linux yesterday. Today I can't log in. As soon as I type root as a login name it tells me "login correct"

Does this mean I have to re-install all over again?

What caused this?

Chris Chris Davies Head of IT Epsom College College Road Epsom Surrey KT17 4JQ tel.: 01372 821178 fax.: 01372 821005

-- Roger Whittaker SuSE Linux Ltd The Kinetic Centre Theobald Street Borehamwood Herts WD6 4PJ ---------------------- 020 8387 1482 ---------------------- roger@suse-linux.co.uk ----------------------

When you were using it yesterday (? 29 Feb?) were you logged in as root or as an ordinary user? Can you still log in as an ordinary user? Have you restarted the machine since? If you really can't get in at all you have the option of catching the boot sequence into single user mode, or if that doesn't work you could always boot from the install disk and edit your root passwd etc. from a shell in a different virtual console. Looking at your computer date, maybe this is just the leap year millenium bug biting. ;-) For the second query it partly depends which window manager and applications you want - KDE is very big. _____________________________________ Giles Nunn Network Manager Carms Schools ICT Development Centre Tel: +44 01239 710662 Fax: +44 01239 710985 ____________________________________ On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Chris Davies wrote:

Date sent: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:17:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Roger Whittaker To: Chris Davies Copies to: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Really Weird

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Do you mean it tells you "login incorrect"?

Yes

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Doesn't it prompt you for a password? Do you see the Password: prompt at all ?

Yes it asks me to login. I type root and it tells me that the login is incorrect. I don't even get a chance to type a password.

I have to reinstall as I have now found a way via the internet to install my network card. This will require a small DOS partition. Now what I would like to know is what I can leave out of the installation to fit an X-windows system into 420Mb

Ta

Chris

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On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Chris Davies wrote:

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I used a machine set up with linux yesterday. Today I can't log in. As soon as I type root as a login name it tells me "login correct"

Does this mean I have to re-install all over again?

What caused this?

Chris