Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

2012-02-01 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
into a console login, not the usual KDM login window. The upgraded included the latest kernel image package (3.2.0) and thought that might be the culprit so installed the previous version (3.1.0) and restarted but ran into the same problem. Is anyone else experiencing this? I suspect

Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

2012-02-01 Thread Joe
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:31:21 -0600 Seb splu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I upgraded my sid system on my desktop and laptop this morning and restarted only to find out I get straight into a console login, not the usual KDM login window. The upgraded included the latest kernel image package

only console login after latest sid upgrade

2012-01-31 Thread Seb
Hi, I upgraded my sid system on my desktop and laptop this morning and restarted only to find out I get straight into a console login, not the usual KDM login window. The upgraded included the latest kernel image package (3.2.0) and thought that might be the culprit so installed the previous

Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

2012-01-31 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Seb On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 02:31:21PM -0600, Seb wrote: I upgraded my sid system on my desktop and laptop this morning and restarted only to find out I get straight into a console login, not the usual KDM login window. The upgraded included the latest kernel image package (3.2.0

Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

2012-01-31 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 20:36, Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil.deb...@gmx.net wrote: Is anyone else experiencing this? How about checking X's log? Or kdm's? -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

2012-01-31 Thread Seb
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:36:09 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil.deb...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Seb On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 02:31:21PM -0600, Seb wrote: I upgraded my sid system on my desktop and laptop this morning and restarted only to find out I get straight into a console login, not the usual

console login : number of access failures

2007-11-28 Thread daniele pendenza
Hi lists, 1- by default on our Debian system after a successful login through a tty we are presented with the number of failures (unsuccesful logins) that took place before using the same login name.For a non root user this number is correct. But what about the root user ? That number is

Re: console login : number of access failures

2007-11-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
daniele pendenza wrote: Hi lists, But what about the root user ? That number is correct unless no one tried to do su logins (login using the command su). Do you think that su-logins must be considered as general logins and then the super user must know how many unsuccessful su-logins took

Re: console login : number of access failures

2007-11-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:18:23PM +0100, daniele pendenza wrote: 1- by default on our Debian system after a successful login through a tty we are presented with the number of failures (unsuccesful logins) that took place before using the same login name.For a non root user this number is

Console Login of kdm disappeared after upgrade to Etch

2007-04-10 Thread Uwe Dippel
I did the upgrade, with some minor problems on X. In order to debug it, I need a console login. Alas, kdm has lost the 'Console Login' option here. Also, X cannot be killed with a series of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace any longer, it came back here for surely 30 times. I tried 'init 3', 'kdm stop

Re: Console Login of kdm disappeared after upgrade to Etch

2007-04-10 Thread Kent West
On 4/10/07, Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did the upgrade, with some minor problems on X. In order to debug it, I need a console login. Alas, kdm has lost the 'Console Login' option here. Also, X cannot be killed with a series of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace any longer, it came back here

Re: Console Login of kdm disappeared after upgrade to Etch

2007-04-10 Thread Uwe Dippel
, etc. How ugly. No, I was 1. hoping for a way to get Console Login back 2. trying to understand, what 'kdm stop' does. It does: # kdm stop # but doesn't stop it. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Console Login of kdm disappeared after upgrade to Etch

2007-04-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:44:57PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: I did the upgrade, with some minor problems on X. In order to debug it, I need a console login. Alas, kdm has lost the 'Console Login' option here. Also, X cannot be killed with a series of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace any longer, it came

Re: Console Login of kdm disappeared after upgrade to Etch

2007-04-10 Thread Kent West
wanted to make sure the kdm init script is working as I would expect it to. So, your reply implies that you've done this and it works. Good. (You can also do this from within a terminal window within X.) No, I was 1. hoping for a way to get Console Login back I suspect that console login has

Console-Login bei KDM ermöglichen

2005-12-30 Thread Peter Schütt
Hallo, ich habe Debian/Testing/KDE3.4.2 und nutze den KDM. Beim KDM kann ich mich nicht auf der Console einloggen, was ich aber bei Problemen gerne tun würde. Wo muß ich das einstellen? Danke für alle Hinweise und Tips. Ciao Peter Schütt -- www.pstt.de -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und

Re: Console-Login bei KDM e rmöglichen

2005-12-30 Thread Frank Terbeck
Peter Schütt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, ich habe Debian/Testing/KDE3.4.2 und nutze den KDM. Beim KDM kann ich mich nicht auf der Console einloggen, was ich aber bei Problemen gerne tun würde. Wo muß ich das einstellen? Danke für alle Hinweise und Tips. Tach Peter, Drück beim KDM Login

Re: Console Login

2005-06-12 Thread B. L. Jilek
Kent West wrote: Robert Wolfe wrote: Hi alL! What would I need to get both of my Debian 3.1 boxes to boot to a console mode login prompt instead of going to a GUI login after booting up? As stated at the beginning of this thread, remove any login managers you have installed; aptitude

Console Login

2005-06-11 Thread Strake
I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts again. How do I boot into console mode? -- No place like ~/

Re: Console Login

2005-06-11 Thread Marty
Strake wrote: I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts again. How do I boot into console mode? Remove your session manager (gdm, kdm, xdm etc.) or temporarily disable it by moving or turning off its init

Re: Console Login

2005-06-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:36:30PM -0400, Strake wrote: I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts again. How do I boot into console mode? One way is to remove the display manager package that is installed.

Re: Console Login

2005-06-11 Thread Strake
But I still want to be able to start them with startx, i dont want them to be gone. On 6/11/05, Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:36:30PM -0400, Strake wrote: I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical environment and even when I kill it with

Re: Console Login

2005-06-11 Thread Angelina Carlton
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:20:43PM -0400, Strake wrote: But I still want to be able to start them with startx, i dont want them to be gone. you still will be able to startx, kdm, gdm are only *logon managers* they allow you to graphically logon to your computer. Removing them will leave you

Re: Console Login

2005-06-11 Thread Strake
Thx, it works now! On 6/11/05, Angelina Carlton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:20:43PM -0400, Strake wrote: But I still want to be able to start them with startx, i dont want them to be gone. you still will be able to startx, kdm, gdm are only *logon managers* they

Re: Console Login

2005-06-11 Thread John Hasler
Strake writes: But I still want to be able to start them with startx, i dont want them to be gone. Startx and a display manager such as kdm are two different ways of starting X. If you use startx you don't need a display manager. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Console Login

2005-06-11 Thread Mr Mike
On 06/11/2005 11:36:30 AM, Strake wrote: I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts again. How do I boot into console mode? -- No place like ~/ You shouldn't have to remove your GUI's or login managers..

Re: Console Login

2005-06-11 Thread Kent West
Paul E Condon wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:36:30PM -0400, Strake wrote: I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts again. How do I boot into console mode? There are three display managers any

Re: Console Login

2005-06-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mr Mike: another alternative is to edit your /etc/inittab and change your default runlevel to something other than gui with network... then if you need gui, just do init 5 at the cli.. That won't work with Debian. Debian boots everything already in runlevel 2. J. -- I am on the

Re: Console Login

2005-06-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:20:19PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: Mr Mike: another alternative is to edit your /etc/inittab and change your default runlevel to something other than gui with network... then if you need gui, just do init 5 at the cli.. That won't work with Debian.

Re: Console Login

2005-06-11 Thread Strake
Thx ppl, it boots into console mode now! -- No place like ~/

Console Login

2005-06-11 Thread Robert Wolfe
Hi alL! What would I need to get both of my Debian 3.1 boxes to boot to a console mode login prompt instead of going to a GUI login after booting up? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Console Login

2005-06-11 Thread Kent West
Robert Wolfe wrote: Hi alL! What would I need to get both of my Debian 3.1 boxes to boot to a console mode login prompt instead of going to a GUI login after booting up? As stated at the beginning of this thread, remove any login managers you have installed; aptitude purge wdm gdm xdm kdm

Suspected system compromise (was: Re: console login fails)

2003-12-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:25:13PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:12:48PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: I'm having trouble logging into tty1-tty6. I get a prompt, put in my username and hit enter, and then it hangs for 10 seconds without

Re: Suspected system compromise (was: Re: console login fails)

2003-12-22 Thread Patrick Lesslie
been compromised for 73 days before I got around to fixing what I thought was just a bug in the virtual console login. It was a home gateway, and a desktop with heaps of packages. First try 'lsattr /bin/login'. Check that the partition is mounted writable. # ls -l /old/bin/login suSiadAc

Re: Suspected system compromise (was: Re: console login fails)

2003-12-22 Thread Patrick Lesslie
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:46:56AM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: My favourite file was the last one ... I mean, the crontab one. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: console login fails

2003-12-20 Thread Patrick Lesslie
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:29:46AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Can you login as a different user? As root? No. (I can login to X, or via ssh though). Are any of your partitions mounted read-only? /dev/hda10 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) Have you fsck'd your partitions lately? fsck has

Re: console login fails

2003-12-20 Thread Kent West
Patrick Lesslie wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:29:46AM -0600, Kent West wrote: What are the permissions on './bin/login'? -rw-rw-rw-1 root root0 Oct 9 09:36 /bin/login I think I see the problem here. It's empty. :-} So getty is timing out. However if I try to

Re: console login fails

2003-12-19 Thread Kent West
Patrick Lesslie wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:12:48PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: I'm having trouble logging into tty1-tty6. I get a prompt, put in my username and hit enter, and then it hangs for 10 seconds without asking for a password, and brings up another login prompt.

console login fails

2003-12-18 Thread Patrick Lesslie
Hi, I'm having trouble logging into tty1-tty6. I get a prompt, put in my username and hit enter, and then it hangs for 10 seconds without asking for a password, and brings up another login prompt. Has anyone seen this? I'm having trouble finding relevant hits. thx, Patrick Lesslie -- To

Re: console login fails

2003-12-18 Thread Patrick Lesslie
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:12:48PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: I'm having trouble logging into tty1-tty6. I get a prompt, put in my username and hit enter, and then it hangs for 10 seconds without asking for a password, and brings up another login prompt. Having done a bit more

Console login banner appears twice

2003-08-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I recently setup a new machine with Woody, and I think I changed something that causes the console login banner to appear twice when logging locally or remotely via SSH. Basically what I get is this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux isl 2.4.21-1 #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 20:33:28 EDT

Re: Console login banner appears twice

2003-08-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:27:41AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: I recently setup a new machine with Woody, and I think I changed something that causes the console login banner to appear twice when logging locally or remotely via SSH. Make sure that 'PrintMotd no' is set in /etc/ssh

Re: Console Login/Auth ~= GDM/KDM Login/Auth

2002-06-24 Thread Michel Loos
Have you enabled shadow passwords ? kdm and gdm are looking for them, while your console login does not. Michel. Em Dom, 2002-06-23 às 11:14, Randolph S. Kahle escreveu: Mark, Thank you for the reply. I have studied the files in /etc/pam.d and I am not sure I can figure out what

Re: Console Login/Auth ~= GDM/KDM Login/Auth

2002-06-23 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Mark, Thank you for the reply. I have studied the files in /etc/pam.d and I am not sure I can figure out what is wrong. Here are the files: login - auth requisite pam_securetty.so auth requisite pam_nologin.so auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_unix.so

Console Login/Auth ~= GDM/KDM Login/Auth

2002-06-22 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have just installed Woody from CDROM images. I can log on via the console as root and as a normal user. All is fine. When I run GDM (or the KDE login manager), when I enter a valid user and password, it rejects it. Why are these operating differently? Am I going through different

Re: Console Login/Auth ~= GDM/KDM Login/Auth

2002-06-22 Thread Mark Roach
On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 15:28, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: I have just installed Woody from CDROM images. I can log on via the console as root and as a normal user. All is fine. When I run GDM (or the KDE login manager), when I enter a valid user and password, it rejects it. Why are these

Re: startx immediately after console login

2001-09-18 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Rob VanFleet (on Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:55:58AM -0500): I also tried the method of calling startx that automatically logs you out of the console, i.e.: startx -- :1 1.startx.log 21 exit which does log me out of the console, but also doesn't bring up x (it seems like it is

startx immediately after console login

2001-09-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
I am trying to figure out the best method to automatically startx after a user logs in from the console. I know I could accomplish easily by using a graphical display manager, but I would prefer to avoid that if at all possible. I have tried a couple of methods thus far, with less than

Re: [SOLVED] startx immediately after console login

2001-09-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
As Lukas Ruf so kindly pointed out to me, I was missing the obvious that my terms were still parsing /etc/profile each time they were ran, so I added a condition to check whether $DISPLAY contains a value or not, and run 'startx exit' if $DISPLAY is empty. -Rob

1. gpm and Gnome / 2. console login-graphical login

2001-03-20 Thread Sergio Andreozzi
and have a console login? In this case how can I start Gnome? Thanks for your help Sergio Andreozzi

Re: 1. gpm and Gnome / 2. console login-graphical login

2001-03-20 Thread David Z. Maze
/etc/rc?.d to keep gpm from starting. Or you could remove gpm using 'dpkg --remove gpm'. (gpm is a console-mode mouse driver; some people like it a lot.) SA 2. at the end of the boot-strap I have a graphical login. SA How can avoid the starting of X/Gnome and have a console login? SA

Re: Can I use sendmail with having a console login

2000-10-26 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 02:05:52PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: hello guys, Im running sendmail and would like to give email accounts to my entire office but do not want to give them a login to access the server via console, ftp, ssh etc. Can this be done? Can I give a email account without a

Can I use sendmail with having a console login

2000-10-25 Thread Jay Kelly
hello guys, Im running sendmail and would like to give email accounts to my entire office but do not want to give them a login to access the server via console, ftp, ssh etc. Can this be done? Can I give a email account without a home directory account? Thanks

Enabling Serial Port Console Login

2000-08-30 Thread Peter Kim
I need to be able to login to my Linux web server, via a communications server (Portmaster). The communications server will be connected to web server with a serial cable. I've connected my PC to my web server's serial port (COM1) and (COM2) with a cross cable and tried to login with Tera Term.

Re: Enabling Serial Port Console Login

2000-08-30 Thread Nate Amsden
don't think you need to recompile the kernel what did you do to try to connect? take a look at /etc/inittab if you haven't already it shows some examples for setting up a console on a serial port. make sure its the right kind of cable too, you mentioned using a cross cable ?? shouldn't it be

Re: Enabling Serial Port Console Login

2000-08-30 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 04:13:38PM +0900, Peter Kim wrote: I need to be able to login to my Linux web server, via a communications server (Portmaster). The communications server will be connected to web server with a serial cable. I guess you can use SLIP or also PPP for this. #zless

Re: Enabling Serial Port Console Login

2000-08-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
No need to recompile the kernel. Your kernel should either have serial port support compiled in or in a module. On your server try 'cat /dev/ttyS0' If you get an error: cat: /dev/ttyS0: No such device Then your kernel doens't have support. Otherwise it does. Now you just need to run a getty

Re: Enabling Serial Port Console Login

2000-08-30 Thread John Anderson
type dmesg | more and you should be able to see if serial ports are available to you. You have to uncomment one of the terminal lines in /etc/inittab. The connect speed on your terminal (or PC pretending to be one) must be the same. The text-terminal howto http://www.linuxdoc.org has many

console login messed up, works in X

1999-09-24 Thread Jens Guenther
Hi, I'm recovering from file system corruption. I think, I restored all packages, but ran into this problem: I can't log in on console as root. When logging in as a regular user, I get my usual shell (bash), but the keyboard is not configured for germany. Also, I can't su to root. Login in X