I initially installed the KDE3 desktop, as that was what I was used to, and I knew it was well-tested and stable. I later installed KDE4 to try. Things are great; a little slow, but that was expected (old computer). Then I installed GNOME – it looks and works great.
I was just getting settled, then all of a sudden, I can’t login anymore. I was switching from KDE4 back to KDE3. I mis-typed the password. Okay, no big deal. So I made sure to type it slower. The screen goes black like it’s going to login, and then the next thing I see is the login screen again. I knew I hadn’t typed it wrong, so I switched the session type to GNOME. No go. I tried KDE4 again. No go. So, I restarted the computer… same thing.
Luckily, I have the computer dual-booted – I am posting this from XP.
Can anyone help?
I haven’t the foggiest clue as to what could be wrong. I spent a great deal of time setting things up and installing needed software. I would really LOVE to avoid a “format-reinstall” fix.
Im currently having the exact same problem. I can still logon in Console tho, and I can also logon X using root username and password. I thought that I had somehow succesfully screwed up my profile, and with a friends idea, i tried to run this command
rm -rf .*
to remove all the profile settings,but still didnt work. And then i used YaST2 to remove the profile entirely and created a brand new profile. Yet it fails. Hope someone has any idea how to fix this. Thanks
Um… regarding the ‘rm’ command, where in the filesystem were you?
Typically using that particular exact command without a full path is a
really really bad idea because, with ‘root’ privileges, you could easily
destroy your entire system including personal data in home directories.
Good luck.
Huz wrote:
| Im currently having the exact same problem. I can still logon in Console
| tho, and I can also logon X using root username and password. I thought
| that I had somehow succesfully screwed up my profile, and with a
| friends idea, i tried to run this command
|
| rm -rf .*
|
| to remove all the profile settings,but still didnt work. And then i
| used YaST2 to remove the profile entirely and created a brand new
| profile. Yet it fails. Hope someone has any idea how to fix this.
| Thanks
|
|
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Okay, well, I’m not sure how that will help logins. Do you see anything
in /var/log/messages during the login attempt? It’s very possible that
PAM is setup to allow logins at the command line but not via the GUI.
Post the contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf and possibly the /etc/pam.d/xdm
(and gdm) files. They may not help, but they may. Mostly I’m curious
about the ‘messages’ file’s content during a login.
Good luck.
Huz wrote:
| ab@novell.com;1834172 Wrote:
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|> Um… regarding the ‘rm’ command, where in the filesystem were you?
|> Typically using that particular exact command without a full path is a
|> really really bad idea because, with ‘root’ privileges, you could
|> easily
|> destroy your entire system including personal data in home
|> directories.
|>
|> Good luck.
|>
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| I was in Home dir. Like I said, I used it to delete the profile
| configs.
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>I thought
>that I had somehow succesfully screwed up my profile, and with a
>friends idea, i tried to run this command
>
>rm -rf .*
>
>to remove all the profile settings,but still didnt work.
That is a very bad command to run. If you had been root, you could
have lost a lot of data! (I know, I did it once!)
If you want to delete all of the hidden directories, and all their
sub-directories in your home directory then, as your normal user, do
this:
rm -rf .[a-zA-Z0-9]*
But that is still a bad option – you might delete something you need
(browser bookmarks and such). The best way to handle this is to create
a new user and see if that helps. If it does, you can copy data from
the old directory (and try the various hidden directories to see if you
can find which one broke it, so you don’t repeat it).
–
Kevin Nathan (Arizona, USA)
Linux is not a destination, it’s a journey – enjoy the trip!
Linux 2.6.22.18-0.2-default
10:04pm up 1 day 3:37, 21 users, load average: 0.40, 0.45, 0.49
Ok, Im trying to give what you’re asking, Im just learning Linux and I hope Im giving you the right thing.
var/log/messages :
Jul 4 20:04:20 linux-bm7z gconfd (Huz-2984): starting (version 2.22.0), pid 2984 user ‘Huz’
Jul 4 20:04:20 linux-bm7z gconfd (Huz-2984): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Failed to get a lock: couldn’t create directory `/tmp/gconfd-Huz/lock’: No space left on device
Jul 4 20:04:21 linux-bm7z kdm: :0[2996]: Cannot save user authorization in home dir
Jul 4 20:04:25 linux-bm7z kdm: :0 '[3035]: Cannot save user authorization in home dir
etc/nsswitch.conf :
passwd: files nis
shadow: files nis
group: files nis
passwd: compat
group: compat
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
networks: files dns
I have deleted my profile and created a brand new one, but its still like that when I try to login with the new one. Anything else that might work? Im still linux noob so I’m kinda shooting blind Hope you guys can help me out here.
