[TriLUG] login issues
Jeremy Portzer
jeremyp at pobox.com
Sun Dec 15 14:52:32 EST 2002
Can you press ctrl-alt-F1 and log in on a text console?
Or log in via SSH from the network ?
--Jeremy
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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