Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2006-11-03 14:19, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2006-11-03 07:26, Basil Chupin wrote:
error message, "Error in service module." and I cannot login as root. (However, from the Desktop and in a terminal window I can login as root and the password *is* accepted.) Same thing also happens when I try and login as a User- error message about the service module :-( .
Are there no errors in /var/log/messages?
OK, google first, reply second:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help/63144-error-service-module....
(summary: this is a PAM error. Comment out the last 3 lines of /etc/pam.d/login.)
Googling for the exact phrase "error in service module" yields nearly 500 results, but so far I've only checked the first few. The above URL is the only one so far with anything that approaches useful and explanatory information (eg. does the law of unintended consequences apply?).
Thanks for this. I tried searching for the phrase but gave up trying to find sense in what I found so what you wrote above is what I acted on and I thank you for finding the above. I uncommented the last 3 lines and the problem disappeared. However, a problem like this just doesn't occur for no reason- in all the years that I have been running SuSE I've never struck this. A problem coming out of the blue may indicate that something else is wrong and yet to be uncovered. Have to say that the problem is rather odd because I can login as root and user inside a terminal window (and at boot time) but not as either when in, say, CTRL-ALT-F3; surely the OS follows the same set of procedures when logging in in either situation. Don't know enough about how LInux works to be able to answer this. Anyway, thanks for the above as it fixed the problem - whether for good or for bad time only time will tell :-) . Cheers. -- "I hope you leave here and walk out and say, 'What did he say?'" George W. Bush 27 August 2004