Dragora not logging innnnnn!

herakles · 06-20-2014, 04:15 PM

Hi from Mauritius !

I instasllled Dragoria quite successfully but when I want to boot ( I let the user name on" root" and chosen a password, I cnnot log in ( as per photo ) !

Please HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPP

Regards

Caron

EDDY1 · 06-20-2014, 11:37 PM

You have caps on. Should be root

herakles · 08-13-2014, 10:40 AM

NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !TRIED BOTH BUT STILL STUCKED !

Still not login in and compared to Porteus , it's a big file size !
Most frustrating !
Any idea !?!?

Caron

rokytnji · 08-13-2014, 11:16 AM

Md5sum of Iso?

herakles · 08-13-2014, 11:54 AM

Hi and thanks for reply !

I downloaded dragora 2.2-x86_64.iso on dragora.org and I am still stucked with LOGIN and PASSWORD.
Icreated a Vm on a Mint 17 host .
I notice that when I type a login, the cursor stays still when I type a password.
Is it normal?

Thanks again

Caron

rokytnji · 08-13-2014, 01:54 PM

Did you md5sum Dragora iso before installing in your Virtual Machine?

Quote:

I notice that when I type a login, the cursor stays still when I type a password.
Is it normal?

Yes, this is a linux security feature for anyone looking over your shoulder. It's normal.

I am not a Dragora user, mainly because my hardware is full of non free chipsets.
Other reasons having to do with Linux team commitments also.

Reading the install document here

http://dragora.usla.org.ar/wiki/en:d...allation_guide

Quote:

Setting Up Dragora GNU Linux

After you re-boot, you will be greeted first by your boot loader. There should only be one selection, so hit Return to continue booting into Dragora.

As Dragora boots, you will be able to see the hardware being auto-detected. This is a powerful feature of the Linux kernel, and reading the messages as they scroll by is a good way to familiarize yourself with your own hardware as well as what computers do when they start up. If nothing else, seeing all the complex messages scroll by truly gives you an appreciation for how amazing modern computers are, and how great a feat the GNU and Linux projects really are.

Dragora boots to a text prompt by default, because you are still considered the root user. You can log into your new GNU console by typing in:

root

and then your root password.

The first command you will want to issue is to create a new user. Dragora ships with a user-friendly text program that will step you through this. Start this program by typing in:

adduser

Give your new user (yourself, to begin with) a short name, all lowercase, with no spaces or special characters. This will be your username and it will also be the name of your home folder on the computer. It will be where all of your personal files are stored.

Dragora will ask you a series of questions which, generally have safe defualts, so if you don't understand one of the questions, hitting Return will give you appropriate settings. The one exception to this rule is the “List of Groups”, which allows you to add the user to groups that give them permission to do common things. If you are creating a user identity for yourself, then you will probably want to add yourself to:

audio,cdrom,disk,floppy,games,video

Notice how this kind of granularity actually provides you as the computer owner with a lot of power. If you decide later to create a user for a friend who might be visiting you, then you may wish to not give that user permission to use the cdrom drive in order to prevent them from accidentally installing something over your OS or copying data onto your computer that you do not want on your computer.

Notice, also, that at the end of the user creation process, Dragora will prompt you to create a NEW password. Yes, you will have two passwords for your Dragora system, and, again, this is for your own protection! One password (the first one you created) is your “root” password, and you will only use this from now on when you absolutely need to do something to administer your computer and get it running better. The second password (the one you're typing in right now, whilst creating the new user) is your regular, everyday password that you use just to let the computer know that you want access to your personal data.

After you create a user password for your new identity, practise NOT being root by logging out of the system and re-logging in as a normal user. To do this, type in:

exit

Now you are no longer logged into your computer and cannot access any of its files. But you can log in with the user you've just created. If I have created a user called “klaatu” with the password of “pr0y-c?tUU!?” then the login would look a little something like this:

starlight login: klaatu
Password:

Notice that the password is not visible. This is normal, and it is for your privacy.

Now you're logged in as a normal user and can start up the graphical environment for yourself, and finish configuring your system for convenient use. To do this, type in the command:

startx

This will launch the graphical environment of Dragora, and things should start to look fairly familiar. Common conventions such as windows and task managers and trash cans (or “recycle bins”) are present. Exploring your new system this way should be fairly straight-forward.

Note that the Network Manager (to connect to the Internet or your local network) is located in the “X” menu on the lower left corner of the screen, in the Network sub-menu. It is called the “Wicd Network Manager” and is quite user-friendly.

Not having tried Dragora myself. Is this a live session?

Remember to answer the md5sum question correctly also. What was it?

herakles · 08-13-2014, 02:47 PM

I must admit that I don't even know what md5sum is.... This is the reason why I love open-source way of living: so much opportunities to learn , to share, to explore...
What I do is simply download the iso and install it in the Virtual machine because when the Vm boot, I see a partition menu on which I select the only available partition -which is the one where Dragora is installed . Then all the boot sequence till the fatidic moment of the LOGIN...
I am also puzzled by the fact I have not yet defined the " root " password that the Os is already asking me to input it to LOGIN: so a bloody vicious circle...
Thanks for support...any idea ?

Caron

273 · 08-13-2014, 02:51 PM

Just to be clear after your last post -- this isn't asking for you to create a password for the root account it is asking for you to type the password you gave when asked to create one during the install phase. You should have been asked to come up with a password for root and to type it twice.
Edit: Just installing it myself and have been asked whether I want to change the name of the root account, so did you do that? You would then have been asked whether you want to set a password, did you do that?