I installed 11.4 gnome a few days ago and was fairly well impressed. I do (did) have some issues with it, though (e.g. libreoffice won’t copy and paste). So I decided to install 11.3. I decided to enable desktop effects (anyway even though the selection said something to the effect that my system didn’t support them) and what I got is scrambled graphics. So I put the dvd back in and selected rescue installed system. I get a prompt for “rescue login.” Yes, I’ve googled and searched the forums.
Seems like I’ve go two options: someone can tell me what the rescue login is, or I can reinstall. By now, I could have already reinstalled, but the answer would be nice to know. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Well, the only thing I can think of is that that’s too simple for me. Here’s what I got:
Rescue login: root
Rescue:~# root
-bash: root:command not found
Rescue:~# nopassword
-bash: nopassword: command not found
Rescue:~# no password
-bash: no: command not found
Rescue:~#
I guess I need to confess to you folks that I’m not a particularly smart person; some things that are easy for other people to grasp and apply, I have to have broken down and spoon-fed to me so that I can understand. This is one of those times. How – precisely – do I login as root with no password needed? Perhaps someone could type it out verbatim, post, and I could copy it down verbatim?
I may be dumb, but I can spell perseverence. I thought to myself, “Randall, openSUSE isn’t one of those debian-based OSes – you should try a different approach to root.” So I rebooted the dvd and tried a different approach. Here’s what I got:
Rescue login: su
Password: root
Login incorrect
Rescue login: su
Password: no password
Login incorrect
Rescue login: Login timed out after 60 seconds
On 2011-04-06 14:36, Randymanme wrote:
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> nrickert;2318923 Wrote:
>> You should be able to login as root, no password needed.
>
> Well, the only thing I can think of is that that’s too simple for me.
> Here’s what I got:
> Rescue login: root
> Rescue:~# root
> -bash: root:command not found
You are already in, there is no prompt for password. That display is all
you will get, a text only linux live rescue system in all its glory >:-)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
On 2011-04-07 01:36, Randymanme wrote:
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> Well, thank you all very much. No need for me to be embarrassed since
> I’ve already 'fessed up to being dumb.
Don’t worry.
> By the way, can someone direct me to a simply written tutorial on what
> do do to rescue my system after
Let me see… your question is how to disable effects. Compiz? From the
rescue system, no idea. Your options are to create a new user (using yast
as root), and use it, or to remove all compiz packages from the system
(again, using yast, as root).
I don’t know whether starting in failsafe would disable effects and allow
you to change the setting. Worth trying.
You probably need to read some documentation, to guide you, but at this
sleepy time of the night, I don’t remember
I always say that I should make a note of interesting things, but then I
don’t remember where I keep such notes. See? I’m also dumb in my ways
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
When you have problems with the desktop of a user, I do not see the need to strart a rescue system at all. Your system is not borked!
Boot into runlevel 3 (by typing a 3 in the line of the GRUB menu). You will end up with a login prompt. Login as the user that has the problems. Move the .kde directory to another name
mv .kde .kde-save-because-you-never-know
Thus at next KDE login KDE will think that you never used KDE and it will start with a clean default environment.
Log out with
exit
and reboot the system. Login normaly and you should have KDE as if it was your first time on the system.
On 2011-04-09 12:06, Randymanme wrote:
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> gogalthorp;2319736 Wrote:
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> Code:
> --------------------
> > > mv .gnome whatevername
> --------------------
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>>
> Now that’s right up my alley. Thank you all.
Notice that the above removes all your local configurations.
On another thread I discovered that there is a compiz configuration
directory, in “~/.config/compiz/*”. I don’t know what is there, mine are
almost empty, but perhaps there is something there that would disable
compiz. You should have a look. Use “mc” if installed.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
I am having a similar problem, after initial install of 11.4 I get a request for login/password, but it does not accept the one that I set up during installation. I just keep getting ‘login incorrect’. I tried the recovery deal, logged in as root and got the same thing the op got. The problem is that I’m a new Windows convert. so, the text screen is greek to me.
On 2011-04-12 03:06, cbourne76 wrote:
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> I am having a similar problem, after initial install of 11.4 I get a
> request for login/password, but it does not accept the one that I set up
> during installation. I just keep getting ‘login incorrect’. I tried
> the recovery deal, logged in as root and got the same thing the op got.
> The problem is that I’m a new Windows convert. so, the text screen is
> greek to me.
That’s a totally different problem. You should create your own new question.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
