Hello, my first time here.Now i will try to explain my problem.I just installed fresh 11.04 openSuSe 64bit.After doing all the configuration I rebooted and tried to login.Nothing happened.Googled some things, tried ctrl alt f1 and login as root, also tried to login as root, even changed my root password to be sure.Still, nothing happens, except for the thing that everytime I try to login as root it says authentication failed, but if i type my password bad it says bad password.Any ideas?Thanks for the help.
Could be a bad install did you check the checksums of the iso? Did you rub the media check option in the first menu of the install?
Also remember that Linux is case sensitive so ROOT, Root is not the same as root
On 06/22/2011 11:36 PM, sfastin wrote:
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> Nothing happened.
please define “nothing happened”…
if by that you mean the machine boots to a black screen, or blank
screen, or white screen, then see here:
if “nothing happened” means something else please describe it (do you
see a cursor? can you move it with the mouse? move it with the spacebar?
or arrows? Cap Locked LED flashing or not? Monitor says “no signal” and
turns off? etc etc)
and: do NOT log into KDE or Gnome as root, ever…not even just to see
if it will…always log in as yourself…
and: if you didn’t boot from the install disk and do this
http://tinyurl.com/2ebcf27 before you began installing, then do it now
and if you have any reported error, throw that disk away and see here
for how to get a good install disk:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Download_help
and
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/how-faq-forums/new-user-how-faq-read-only/454963-new-users-opensuse-11-4-pre-installation-i-please-read.html
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Maybe your password file is corrupted… look at this:
http://www.ccur.com/isdfaq/How_do_I_fix_a_corrupted_passwd_file.txt
or (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/i-corrupted-etc-shadow-427002/)
In the passwd file are stored users, in the shadow are stored hashed passwords. These are important files, be sure you know what you are doing and remember to keep backup of any file you edit!
Maybe your password file is corrupted… look at this:
http://www.ccur.com/isdfaq/How_do_I_fix_a_corrupted_passwd_file.txt
or (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/i-corrupted-etc-shadow-427002/)
In the passwd file are stored users, in the shadow are stored hashed passwords. These are important files, be sure you know what you are doing and remember to keep backup of any file you edit!
How can you change your password when you are not able to login at all (including root)?
How can you change your password when you are not able to login at all (including root)?
Good question 
Do you have permissions on /etc/passwd
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1701 Jun 15 17:07 passwd
and /etc/shadow
-rw-r----- 1 root shadow 878 Jun 11 18:36 shadow
?
You can boot another distro and disable password, or (this is worth a try) add to grub init=/bin/bash and you will be logged automatically as root without password request and then you can change your passwords.