On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Markus Trautwein wrote: > Since today i cannot login anymore. > > When i try to login via X/KDE Login Screen, the x server crashes while KDE > is loading. When i try to log in via a text console, the system behaves > very strange. I enter my login-name, press enter, awaiting the > loginmanager aks for my password, but this doesn't happen. After entering > my username and pressing enter, it says "login incorrect" without asking > for a password. > > I don't think that i changed anything important since the last reboot, but > maybe i just can't remember. I also checked the logfiles, but found > nothing interesting in it... > > I re-emerged (after playing aroung with the gentoo live cd to get the > sources) pam and pam-login, but nothing happened.
Things to try. Boot off the livecd and chroot into your gentoo installation. Run 'etc-update' and see if there are config files you didn't update. Going on the idea that this might be a library problem, you can also try revdep-rebuild. Check /etc/pam.d/login (and whatever is called using pam_stack). See if anything looks wrong. There's bound to be something in /var/log/auth.log. Can you log in as root? 'ls -lart', apart from having a cool set of options, will sort files by date, earliest first, so right at the bottom of the screen will be the most recently used files. Doing that in /etc might help you pinpoint the problem. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
