[TriLUG] login issues
Jon Carnes
jonc at nc.rr.com
Sun Dec 15 12:04:05 EST 2002
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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