Hello,
I’ve recently installed openSUSE 11.3 with GNOME and I’m facing some serious problems… lol!
When I was working on desktop settings, it locked itself, and it doesn’t accept password I set during installation. :’(
I know that password is right, because it worked in YaST.
How to solve this problem without loosing any files? I haven’t done backup… :shame:
Is it possible to reinstall system, without formatting hard disk, and loosing files?
Yes if you have a separate home partition and select at install NOT to format the home partition just mount it as /home
As to the lock is this at boot or some other place and are you sure of the case (cap locks on?) since case counts in Linux
it doesn’t accept password I set during installation.
I know that password is right, because it worked in YaST.
Do you have a separate password for root and normal user?
How to solve this problem without loosing any files? I haven’t done backup…
Use a live CD to first back up those files.
Do you have a separate password for root and normal user?
No, I use the same.
As to the lock is this at boot or some other place and are you sure of the case (cap locks on?) since case counts in Linux
Yes, I’ve checked that…
Thanx people! 
Try logging in as root with the password and then System | User and Group Management | change user password
Or from a terminal session as root
chpasswd user_name:password
On 08/31/2010 06:06 PM, tararpharazon wrote:
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> Try logging in as root with the password and then System | User and
> Group Management | change user password
Do NOT log into the GUI as root!! You may destroy your system.
On 2010-08-31 13:36, Dragon Bard wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I’ve recently installed openSUSE 11.3 with GNOME and I’m facing some
> serious problems… lol!
> When I was working on desktop settings, it locked itself, and it
> doesn’t accept password I set during installation. :’(
> I know that password is right, because it worked in YaST.
>
> How to solve this problem without loosing any files? I haven’t done
> backup… :shame:
> Is it possible to reinstall system, without formatting hard disk, and
> loosing files?
I don’t understand the problem. Could you explain again what you can’t do?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
when you login to the gui as root you are in the root’s environment and you do this to fix specific problems.
Why? just use gnomesu, kdesu, xdg-su then your command, if using the
CLI just use su -
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.34-12-default
up 11 days 17:48, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.14, 0.10
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 256.53
You should never ever log into a GUI as root. Ther is never ever a need to do this. You take a chance each time that you inadvertantly break something in a user directory by changing file ownerships by accident. There are hundreds of examples on the board of people doing this.
Please do not encourage noobs to log into a GUI as root.
Problem fixed!
Although, I was too upset, so I’ve missed one important bit of information.
As I logged in as user, it actually accepted password, but crashed instantly, and returned to log in… I had no problem with logging in into XTerm environment, or however it is called.
I guess that the problem came out when i was adjusting desktop settings.
It’s an old computer, with 768MB RAM and integrated graphic card, and I’ve probably pushed it too hard with graphical environment and desktop effects.
I guess that’s how bug came up. Shouldn’t it, in such situations, when it crashes, restore previous settings?
Yes I understand but IIRC the OP couldn’t login to the GUI as ordinary user because the password wasn’t recognized. Because he used the same password for root, I suggested he login as Root (GUI) and change the ordinary user password if he could. If he can’t then we need to come up with alternatives.
Basically, I wanted to know if he made a typo creating the ordinary userid password and if the root password works. Root password was supposed to be the same as the ordinary user.
Sorry not having this FUD argument again.
I logged into the gui as root ONCE! My system caught fire, my dog got sick, and three neighbours developed rare neurological disorders!
NEVER AGAIN!
. for some reason the 11.3 installation disk cannot see the second hard drive and meanwhile i can see it with Parted Magic.
I bought my wife a laptop about 18 months ago, she only wants to use PCLinuxOS (it is what she is used to) PCLinuxOS would only work with a root account, (it took some effort to get it to even install) attempts to get a normal user account to work from GUI or CLI failed. I’ve been waiting for the system to die, But I don’t want to force it, It has not had an update in this time, this is still reliable (possibly because she is overly cautious).
I know I am going to cop some flack for posting this, but they are facts.
for some reason the 11.3 installation disk cannot see the second hard drive and meanwhile i can see it with Parted Magic.
The quote I intended to use was from post #14
I logged into the gui as root ONCE! My system caught fire, my dog got sick, and three neighbours developed rare neurological disorders!
I’ve got a fire extinguisher and my dog died some time ago. But, I was wondering if I can designate which neighbors develop rare neurological disorders? <:-p