[TriLUG] login issues

[Jon Carnes]

In a worse case scenario you can always boot off the CD you used in the
install.  Normally you boot the CD and then type "rescue".

Also, when you boot your machine, you should get either a list of boot
options (like safe boot), or you should get a pause that lets you type
in your own boot parameters, like: linux -single

Good Luck! 

On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 14:15, jwtickle at jtsoft.net wrote:
> 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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