On Mon October 4 2010 03:46:27 Will Stephenson wrote:
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.
<snipped avoiding display manager with startx advice/>
Bob, (1) can you login as your normal user at a text console?
yes
(2) Can you login as a different user?
root, yes, console and kde
(3) What does the login screen actually say - 'Incorrect password'?
no, I enter my password and it redisplays the login screen
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.
I will take a look. but I thought I would lay out answers to your question. not a good log reader somewhere there must be a complete newby's guide to how to read logs and understand what you read -- Bob Rea gapetard@stsams.org www.petard.us -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org