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kaelistus
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Joined: 25 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:26 pm Post subject: Completely locked out |
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Hi,
I've got an interesting problem... I tried updating my system by doing a little
emerge rsync
emerge -u portage
emerge -u world
script. On the world part it failed due to conflicts with XOrg (I checked in the forum how to fix this, this isn't the question). I held back unmerging XOrg and emerging the newest since I was working on the computer at the time. A few hours later, some software crashed a nice permanent death and I rebooted.
And now I can't log back on!!! X, KDE doesn't start as normal. Instead, I just get the login prompt. So, I entered "root" or any usersname and I don't get asked a password! It just goes back to asking me for a login!
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PsychoticRetina
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Joined: 18 Dec 2005
Posts: 352
Location: behind the scalpel
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| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject: Re: Completely locked out |
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| kaelistus wrote: | | I held back unmerging XOrg and emerging the newest since I was working on the computer at the time. |
emergeing new xorg + enmerging the old one during an active x session is not contraindicated in any way whatsoever. im not sure what went wrong, but in your place id just boot off of a cd, chroot and emerge world again.
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Kurt Steiner
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Joined: 01 Apr 2005
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Location: Ostroleka, Polska
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Try to chroot to your system from a liveCD and I think that is the problem.  |
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brutus
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Location: ChiCago,Il
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A while back there was a problem with shadow and pam modules.. I think it was when you emerged the new shadow it
didnot work with pam login.
But if I remember right, I got in via stopping the interactive startup and getting into maint. mode cntr-D
then starting up my network manually. Then fixing the pam and shadow conflict.
If I find the link I will post it..
Search forums for shadow and/or pam login problems. |
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