No user login after Suse 9.3 upgrade
 

Hi,
today I upgraded my Suse Linux from 9.2 to 9.3. Everything went well, I downloaded literally all available patches under the 9.3 GUI and started installing files. Upon reboot however, Suse at first kept on refering me to version 9.2 which no longer existed. After fixing MBR entries 9.3 finally showed up and the program advances to the login screen, but at the login screen the user name and password I had set up were no longer accepted (on the graphical interface as well as on the login command line); I cannot log in as root either, if I enter root as user it won`t even ask me for a password, but declares the username as illegal. I tried setting up two new users via Knoppix and it was shown among the user list, but upon reboot both new users were rejected by Suse 9.3. I also "hacked" the root file via the widespread "vi procedure" for resetting the root account under Knoppix just to make sure that the root password was originally set correct during the installation (it was). Does anybody have an idea what I can do??? I am new to Linux so help would be greatly appreciated and I would definitely be enthusiastic if someone could spare me the time of reinstalling everything again (cumbersome procedure, my 9.3. disks won`t install by themselves, I have to install 9.2. first and then upgrade it to 9.3; my latest version definitely had ALL available patches and add-ons installed).
Thanks a lot,

Andi
:confused:

first off are you getting any error messages when you attempt to login?

upgrading from 9.2 to 9.3 is an upgrade that probably be done as a clean install as there have been some significant changes to KDE with the 3.4 version, namely in the KDM and it appears in the setup file where all you personal settings are stored. Try going into the command line (from the login screen hit Ctrl + Alt + F1) and renaming the ".kde" folder in you users home directory (/home/username) for your user to ".kde.old" then try to login, the system should set you up a new .kde folder with the base KDE setup then it should allow you to login. if that doesn't work you could also try setting up a new user then try logging in with that user, if you still can not login than it would be my guess that KDM is not configured correctly. I had a similar issue when I upgraded although I did a clean install of the system I keep my /home directory as a separate partition on my harddrive, so when I tried to login KDE would try to startup with using my old KDE config file, once I renamed the ".kde" folder everything went fine.