[TriLUG] More specifics on Login Issues

[Janyne Kizer]

What does your ~/.xsession-errors look like?  Is there anything in /tmp/
that starts with xses (something like /tmp/xses-USERID.9svxXg)?  If so,
what does that look like?  Do you have quotas turned on?  

Jeff Tickle wrote:
> 
> Thanks to everyone who replied and helped out, first of all.
> 
> Let me be a little more specific though.  I am already logging in at the
> text-based login prompt.  When I type my username and hit enter, it just
> clears the screen and displays the prompt again without asking for a
> password.  So, basically, I can't log in.
> 
> Or so I thought.  I went to another box in the house and used SSH to get
> in as root last night.  I wasn't sure what all "log files" to look at,
> but dmesg didn't come up with anything unusual.  So just for fun I typed
> init 5 to see if the GUI login worked.  It does.  I am in Linux right
> now.
> 
> However, there are more problems now.  First, I still can't log in from
> a virtual terminal, which is bad.  Also, and this is probably related,
> the KDE screensaver does not accept my password to unlock my machine.
> 
> I looked at /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, and nothing looks out of the
> ordinary.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated!!
> 
> -J
> 
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Janyne Kizer
Systems Programmer Administrator
NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Extension Information Technology