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Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: |
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>Hi, |
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>I am no longer able to log into KDE 3.4 via KDM after an improper |
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>shutdown (laptop overheated, and shutdown!). I am able to log in via |
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>agetty (Ctrl-Alt-F1), though. |
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>Incidentally, while inside KDE (as another user ofcourse) I am unable |
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>to SU into superuser as well. My password is rejected. |
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Is that user in the wheel group? as root nano -w /etc/group or |
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cat /etc/group | grep wheel |
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should work too. Mine is like this: |
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> root@smoker / # cat /etc/group | grep wheel |
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> wheel:x:10:root,dale,dale2 |
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> root@smoker / # |
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Umm, I'm dale. :) dale2 is my backup in case I run into a problem like |
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you are having now. |
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>KDM displays my username, but once I enter the password the screen |
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>goes blank and I'm presented with KDM once again. |
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>I am able to log in as another user. Is there some /home/<user>/.kde |
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>file I need to delete? |
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No clue where but there may be a lock file somewhere. Maybe someone |
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else will know. Dale pats his UPS and is grateful he has a desktop. |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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