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artorious
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 Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject: Login Trouble |
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I just spent the past day installing Gentoo. Everything worked just fine. I then proceded to emerge xorg-x11, which installed fine, followed by gnome. After installing gnome, I rebooted, when the CLI comes to the login prompt, I log in (root, I don't have another account yet) and it waits a few seconds, then returns me to the login prompt. It never gives me the password prompt. I can't try logging into it via SSH as sshd doesn't start on boot. Any idea what causes this/how to fix it?
I'm running with stage 3, kernel 2.6.17. |
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genfive
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I had the same problem a while back... you need to "emerge --deep --update shadow"
however, since you didn't start sshd, I am not sure how you can get in and do it... when I had the problem, I could at least ssh in, as well as using the gnome gui. probably other experts will guide you a way to get in. |
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bdm
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genfive
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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questions for you
1. how would you chroot back to gentoo? please be specific to us newbies.
2. I don't think the root password is what caused the problem, but as a rule, yes, he should always have password set for any of the accounts |
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opentaka
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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try logging in from the console. to do this, CTRL+ALT+F1 ~ F6
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artorious
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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Would I be able to re-mount the filesystems with the livecd and "emerge --deep --update shadow"?
I have tried logging in through the console (that's what I meant by CLI). Since I just installed everything, I dont have GDM set to start at boot, so I have to log in though the console and then run "startx".
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opentaka
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| artorious wrote: | | Would I be able to re-mount the filesystems with the livecd and "emerge --deep --update shadow"? |
yes. but need to chroot and stuff. checkout the handbook for more details.
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artorious
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Alright, I was able to log in by "emerge --deep --update shadow". Now for my other problems... |
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foxbat
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This is a good thread, can you (or someone) update the title to say [solved]?
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