HELP: What Do I Do? I can't Login!

zhuangshi · 05-01-2005, 01:13 AM

Greetings all:

Tonight I installed a couple of different programs into my linux distro (SuSE9.3) and now I can't login as user, only root. When I try to login it just goes black and then goes back to the login screen. I made a new user and was about to login, it's just the one name (with all my shit/files/prefernces saved). The programs I installed are:

kasablanca
and
yahoo messenger (rpm built for redhat but yahoo site said it would work)

what can i do?

masand · 05-01-2005, 01:39 AM

hi

tell me what do u have in that uer entry in /etc/passwd

also cam u login into a shell from that user???

zhuangshi · 05-01-2005, 10:28 AM

Code:

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/bin/bash
daemon:x:2:2:Daemon:/sbin:/bin/bash
lp:x:4:7:Printing daemon:/var/spool/lpd:/bin/bash
mail:x:8:12:Mailer daemon:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/bin/false
news:x:9:13:News system:/etc/news:/bin/bash
uucp:x:10:14:Unix-to-Unix CoPy system:/etc/uucp:/bin/bash
games:x:12:100:Games account:/var/games:/bin/bash
man:x:13:62:Manual pages viewer:/var/cache/man:/bin/bash
at:x:25:25:Batch jobs daemon:/var/spool/atjobs:/bin/bash
wwwrun:x:30:8:WWW daemon apache:/var/lib/wwwrun:/bin/false
ftp:x:40:49:FTP account:/srv/ftp:/bin/bash
named:x:44:44:Name server daemon:/var/lib/named:/bin/false
postfix:x:51:51:Postfix Daemon:/var/spool/postfix:/bin/false
sshd:x:71:65:SSH daemon:/var/lib/sshd:/bin/false
ntp:x:74:65534:NTP daemon:/var/lib/ntp:/bin/false
messagebus:x:100:101:User for D-BUS:/var/run/dbus:/bin/false
haldaemon:x:101:102:User for haldaemon:/var/run/hal:/bin/false
nobody:x:65534:65533:nobody:/var/lib/nobody:/bin/bash
keith:x:1000:100:Keith Suthammanont:/home/keith:/bin/bash
keiths:x:1001:100:Keith Suthammanont:/home/keiths:/bin/bash

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about the shell thing:

not sure i'll check now and get back to you

zhuangshi · 05-01-2005, 10:33 AM

the only way i can login that works is "failsafe"...

if anything, can you tell me how to get my prefs/important info from my other login to the new one i made?

- firefox bookmarks
- kontact mail

masand · 05-01-2005, 10:37 AM

just do this

go to
/home/<username>/

go for view hidden files from the konqueror menu
then u will get a directory
.mozilla/firefox

thats for firefox prefernces

and similary u can look for ur mail and other stuff in .kde or anothe directoy, it might be hidden

regards

abisko00 · 05-01-2005, 11:03 AM

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the only way i can login that works is "failsafe"...

So I guess it's a problem with kdm. You could try to boot into command-line (type '3' at the grub menu) and login with your failing user-account (should work). Now try to enter KDE by typing 'startx'. If it doesn't work, you'll hopefully get some error messages that could help us.