[TriLUG] login issues

[jwtickle at jtsoft.net]

I have no way to log in to check the log files, unless there is a fancy trick to
get to them...  (still a n00b I guess :-P)

Quoting Jon Carnes <jonc at nc.rr.com>:

> 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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