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