On Monday 04 October 2010 06:59:49 David C. Rankin wrote:
On 10/03/2010 04:24 PM, Bob Rea wrote:
then it had trouble starting but finally got to kde login, now won't accept my password. What can I do about that?
Can't upgrade til I have working dvd or cd drive, which was the point of the exercise.
Bob,
Dunno, sounds like something with pam may be messed up or whatever backend you use there.
David, what you wrote is a bodge. If PAM (pluggable authentication modules) is messed up, console login is unlikely to work either. How about seeing why it won't accept Bob's password?
If you just want to boot into your desktop (kde4 I guess?), then you can login to a text console on your box and set the <snipped avoiding display manager with startx advice/>
Bob, (1) can you login as your normal user at a text console? (2) Can you login as a different user? (3) What does the login screen actually say - 'Incorrect password'? If not (1), can you login as root, and look at the end of /var/log/messages for messages from login. This will tell you why login was rejected, eg: " Oct 4 09:40:23 bigbox login[3692]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM /dev/tty3 FOR will, Authentication failure " If it's a PAM problem (unlikely in a vanilla setup given that you just changed cabling) it will be logged here. Let us know the relevant log messages and we can try and get to the bottom of what's changed on your system. Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org