Hello all,

I found some URL's on novell site so Yast would find updates.
This worked very well after a reboot last night some tool in (gnome)toolbar found 435 updates.
Mostly for gnome, kde and development libraries.

With the toolbar tool (i use gnome) I updated a large portion of the updates without rebooting.
I rebooted today and got a opensuse login screen, before the updates I never got a login screen. I tried to login with username password. I got an errormessage "Login Failed". Even the root username gave a "Login Failed". Restarted the system in safemode and logged in on the commandline that worked for both accounts.

How can I get into gnome gui again? Rather, I liked it that I didn't have to login and started gnome on the default acount.

Regards,

Theo

try to boot into single_user_mode(or failsafe mode, or whatever you call it)
#ls /home (to find out your username )
#man passwd
#passwd "username"

and don't forget to have fun

P.S. if you havn't got "failsafe" mode in your bootloader (GRUB), then you'll have to learn some more trics. Live-CD booting, mounting partitions, mounting loop devices, chroot, etc.

Sorry tried your suggestion but didn't work.

I could log in in safe mode with username password see my original post.

I changed my password but no luck.

Something is screwed up when starting the Graphical interface.
The graphical startup stops at an opensuse login screen.
The loginscreen validates the username password but gives in separate balloon "Login Failed".
When I give deliberately a false password, a message is given in the same screen below the login field.

Are there startup logs of the graphical interface. Can I startup the graphical interface in safe mode to see what happens? How do I do this?

Regards,

Theo

I'm sure you checked, but can the caps lock have been turned on by default?

Like I said. I get a different notification when I type the right password then when I type a wrong password. It has nothing to do with password validation. Please believe me, when I say that typed the right password.

The discusion should go about how do I get my graphical system running again. I can access the system only in safemode (where I simply log in). I want to start the graphical interface from commandline to see what happens. Again how do I do this.

Regards,

Theo

You can execute the command "startx" from the command line. It should start GUI.

have you tried to delete your password?