[TriLUG] login issues

[Jon Carnes]

Check your log files.  This happened to me once before and the logs
pointed me to an authentication file used by X that I simply had to
delete - it was recreated automatically.

Good Luck.

On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:00, jwtickle at jtsoft.net wrote:
> Yesterday, I was trying to run something under Wine, and I'm pretty sure the X 
> server crashed.  (the display scrambled and ctrl+alt+backspace had no effect, 
> neither did anything else)  I couldn't do anything, so I hit the reset button.
> 
> Now it seems to boot fine, but when I get to the login prompt and type my 
> username, it just clears the screen and displays the login prompt again 
> (instead of prompting me for a password.)  Any ideas of what is wrong and what 
> steps I can take to fix it?  (its a good thing I didn't clonk Windows off my 
> computer as I had planned...)
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> -Jeff
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