Every now and then, when I try to login, I get an endless loop in which an “Authentication failure” screen pops up; then it immediately goes back to the login window and then acts as if a wrong password has been input. So it goes right back to “Authentication failure.” It’s an endless loop until I hit ctrl-alt-del.
And I’ve noticed that sometimes when I log out, I get a screen saying something like “at-spi-registryd-wrapper.desktop is still running, log out anyway?” This started happening the same day that the loop started, but the two do not always occur in the same login session.
I don’t know if these are related, or if I got a mythical Linux virus. I’d appreciate any help – thanks!
Thanks, Carlos. ctrl-alt-backspace does end the loop, but only for that session. I was also able to end the loop with ctrl-alt-del. I don’t know what I’m supposed to look for with “top” or “ps,” but killing it once doesn’t sound like a long-term solution.
Is there a file that has been corrupted, or something else that I can fix? I’d rather have a login that works. If I can’t fix it, I’ll just reinstall. It may be a problem from upgrading rather installing fresh. I just don’t know why it waited so many weeks to surface.
On 2010-09-15 23:06, xpacker wrote:
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> Thanks, Carlos. ctrl-alt-backspace does end the loop, but only for that
> session.
But it doesn’t reboot and you can try again.
> I was also able to end the loop with ctrl-alt-del.
That reboots.
> I don’t
> know what I’m supposed to look for with “top” or “ps,” but killing it
> once doesn’t sound like a long-term solution.
I can’t know what to look for, exactly, I’m not there. Try discover which processes are active. Try
looking at the logs - for example, by “ls -ltr /var/log | tail” you can see if any one is growing.
It may not be a permanent solution, but it helps finding out what’s the cause.
You can switch to a different login manager.
> Is there a file that has been corrupted, or something else that I can
> fix? I’d rather have a login that works. If I can’t fix it, I’ll just
> reinstall. It may be a problem from upgrading rather installing fresh.
> I just don’t know why it waited so many weeks to surface.
I never reinstall, I find solutions
With upgrading you simply have a few different problems. You have to review the config files listed
by “rcrpmconfigcheck”, for example. You have to make sure that there are no old packages that were
not upgraded.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
Actually, for some reason ctrl-alt-delete does not reboot; it just ends the loop.
Anyway, since I’m also getting that strange “at-spi-registryd-wrapper.desktop still running” error, I think I’ll reinstall – fresh this time. I applaud you for figuring problems out, but being very inexperienced, I sometimes find it easier to just start from scratch. Thanks for all your suggestions, though. If the problem resurfaces after the fresh install, I’ll wade through them. I appreciate your help and time – thanks!
