I though I'd have a go at running Slack through a GUI for the first time. Basically I did a full install of Slack from the CDs, with one user 'root' with a password of 'password'. However when I login with those detail I get some quotation or saying coming up on the screen and then it dumps me back to the login prompt. All this within bash. I don't get a chance to type anything else.

Has anyone else had this problem or knows how to fix it?

Thanks

PS Slack 10.0, still waiting for 10.1 to download

I don't understand, if you see a quote (small joke or whatever - a prog called "fortune" does this), then you should be logged in; are you saying that you have no way of logging in???

It accepts my login, shows the quote, and then dumps me out to the login prompt again straight away.

Nothing unusual, does just the same for me. After the fortune quote, dumps you into login prompt, type startx

for graphical interface, that's all. At least, it should be. If you don't try startx, you're left there..

It shouldn't dump you to a login prompt, it should show the quote and then dump you to a command line. That's where you type your commands - i.e. xorgconf (to set up x) or startx (to start the gui).

As to fixing your problem, I don't know - I just wanted to clarify that what the previous poster said was technically incorrect.

Ahhh, are you in the wrong runlevel?? Try using tty5 (ctrl+alt+F6) and try again...

No luck I'm afraid. I've tried tty1-6 and the same thing happens. I also tried using startx at the login prompt but it just thinks it's a username. The only strange thing I can think about the setup is that my LILO is in the MBR, but that's how I've always done it when I've worked in bash.

This is so wierd. Any more ideas?

one more thing, I selected KDE as my GUI during installation, I can't remember the exact wording of the page, but I just chose the default.

The only other way that I can think of to log in is remotely, via ssh. I don't suppose you have a network running on the box? Otherwise it looks like a broken install - did you add a user called "root", or did you do a standard install without any extra accounts? If you did try to add a user called "root" then the native root account may be broken.

I reinstalled with 10.1 and that solved the problem

I know this is a really old thread, but it was one of the first that I found when I had the same sort of problem, so I figured I'd post a solution here just in case.

I had the same problem (on the SlAMD64 port, but this is pretty generic), I'd type my username and password at the login prompt, and it would just spit me back to the login prompt. The problem was in the bash startup scripts. When bash is first called, it runs the system-wide start-up scripts, /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc (if they exist). /etc/profile also runs /etc/profile.d/*.sh. It was one of these scripts that was killing my shell, which would end up dumping me back to the login prompt. I figured this out by adding a line to /etc/profile that printed each of the scripts that it sourced, and making note of which was the last one to execute.

On my system it was the qt.sh script. If the script was unable to find the qt installation, it would kill my shell. So, I had to modify it to look in the right place for qt, and problem solved!

I hope this helps someone!

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