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genfive
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 Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject: Can't login through tty!!!!![SOLVED] |
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I cannot log into my linux anymore! I was emerging gnome, then I rebooted the machine without even starting X or any gui. At the terminal I tried to login, but it wouldn't let me. It simply waits for a few seconds without asking me for the password, and then goes back to the login prompt again... what could have happened?
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I must have unmerged pam-login at some point, without updating shadow. The problem went away as soon as I updated shadow and util-linux
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arkanoid
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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I had that problem in my tty's as well, and I believe it was related to the pam-shadow/shadow-block. After solving that block my tty's didn't work. I think a simple reboot was all it took (I tried killing the terminals themselve, but without luck)
As a solution, you could pop a live-cd in your drive, boot up on it, chroot into your own environment, add the xdm initscript to runlevel default. Then X will start automatically, so you can use a terminal at least, and try to solve your problem that way around. |
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genfive
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| arkanoid wrote: | I had that problem in my tty's as well, and I believe it was related to the pam-shadow/shadow-block. After solving that block my tty's didn't work. I think a simple reboot was all it took (I tried killing the terminals themselve, but without luck)
As a solution, you could pop a live-cd in your drive, boot up on it, chroot into your own environment, add the xdm initscript to runlevel default. Then X will start automatically, so you can use a terminal at least, and try to solve your problem that way around. |
I rebooted my machine several times, and it didn't solve the problem. I am new to linux, so what does this pam-shadow/shadow-block do? How do i solve the problem using other methods? (xdm may not work for me, because I was having problem with nvidia driver to start with) |
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davascript
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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Recompile your kernel with the vesa or vesatng drivers and add xdm to your init script as well. I have not had the nvidia driver work for me since pre geforce 3. Two thoughts before you do that though.
1. Did you set a root passwd during your install ?
2. Did you create your username and a pasword for it also? |
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genfive
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| davascript wrote: | Recompile your kernel with the vesa or vesatng drivers and add xdm to your init script as well. I have not had the nvidia driver work for me since pre geforce 3. Two thoughts before you do that though.
1. Did you set a root passwd during your install ?
2. Did you create your username and a pasword for it also? |
Yes. i have the root password set and also a different user account. I tried both, but none worked for me. I can SSH into the machine, but just cannot login from its agtty. But at the moment, I just want to get the login problem solved without introducing another headache with the video driver. The video driver will be the next thing on the list. For now, i will be happy if I could loginto the tty and do some stuff. Any ideas?? |
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davascript
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| no ideas as to why you cannot login locally but you can remotely. sorry |
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genfive
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| thanks anyways. anyone else have better ideas? pleeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase...... |
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genfive
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| please somebody. please help |
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