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can't login at text terminal.

can't login at all on cent os 7. this is from the text terminal. there is no dm running. if i login as root, or any user, it bounces back to the login screen immediately. if i enter an incorrect password, it waits 2 seconds before bouncing back. i can run stuff by chrooting into it from another distribution, and update software, but i don't know what is wrong with it.

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Originally Posted by whansard (Post 5933658)

what do the logs say?

By "text terminal" do you mean the console? The keyboard and monitor plugged into the computer?
By "login screen" do you mean the login prompt? Looks something like this

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localhost login:

Besides checking the logs, what do the users you're trying look like in /etc/passwd ?

i had already skimmed the log files, and saw nothing interesting. i had already looked at /etc/passwd also making sure there there were no "nologin" entries, and that root, and the other user were there. I skimmed the logs again, and found this.

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Dec  5 11:58:56 localhost systemd: Startup finished in 1.703s (kernel) + 2.418s (initrd) + 12.131s (userspace) = 16.253s.

Dec  5 11:59:00 localhost systemd-logind: Failed to start user slice user-0.slice, ignoring: Access denied (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied)

Dec  5 11:59:00 localhost systemd-logind: Failed to start session scope session-1.scope: Access denied

Dec  5 11:59:00 localhost systemd: getty@tty1.service has no holdoff time, scheduling restart.

Dec  5 11:59:00 localhost systemd: Stopped Getty on tty1.

Dec  5 11:59:00 localhost systemd: Started Getty on tty1.

Dec  5 11:59:07 localhost systemd: Received SIGINT.

i already made sure the passwords were ok from a chroot from another booted distribution. i hadn't booted this centos 7 since june, so i can't remember what i might have done that caused this.

ok nevermind. it is an initramfs problem. 6 months ago i moved a bunch of stuff around on this hard drive. cent os was on sdb14, and now it's at sdb6. so the device numbers and uuid is wrong in all the initramfs'. i was able to login booting a custom made kernel from lilo. now i just have to fix several other issues.

whatever the ultimate reason (and solution) was, this message couldn't be clearer:

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Originally Posted by whansard (Post 5933896)

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systemd-logind: Failed to start session scope session-1.scope: Access denied

i know what access denied means, but the rest means nothing to me, and i didn't find anything from googing it earlier.

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Originally Posted by whansard (Post 5934136)

i didn't find anything from googing it

i beg to differ.
maybe you need a new search engine.

i meant i didn't find anything that looked to be of any help.