Re: Password messed up (resolved)

2010-05-10 Thread Don
I have unexpectedly fixed this problem by fixing my symbol lookup error problem. For details, refer to the link subject "libgdk-x11 symbol lookup error" started around May 9 (2010). Thanks to all who helped! Regards, Don -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Re: Password messed up

2010-05-09 Thread Don
Coming in late to this thread, but if your K desktop is OK, then you actually have this problem quite well isolated to something in the KDM log-in process. It's not X, and it's not your desktop itself. By the time KDM has switched over to you, it's writing errors into a file, ".xession-errors

Re: Password messed up

2010-05-07 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 07 May 2010 21:15:17 Don wrote: > Thanks, and if anyone has more ideas on fixing my password/login > problem, please help! Coming in late to this thread, but if your K desktop is OK, then you actually have this problem quite well isolated to something in the KDM log-in process. It's n

Re: Re: Password messed up

2010-05-07 Thread Don
I posted this earlier today but did not see it come across in email, so I am re-posting. Excuse if this is a duplicate! Thanks... Original Message Subject: Re: Re: Password messed up Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 15:13:14 -0500 From: Don To: debian-user@lists.debian.org References

Re: Password messed up

2010-05-07 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 May 2010 15:11:17 -0500, Don wrote: > Reviewing the three files suggested above... > > I have included what I feel might be the significant areas of interest > (the "tails") for these 3 files below. They were observed after the > computer log in GUI screen was waiting for several minu

Re: Re: Password messed up

2010-05-06 Thread Don
So review your "/var/log/syslog", "/var/log/auth.log" and "~/.xession- errors", there should be something in there saying why the login fails :-? What desktop are you using (GNOME, KDE...)? Greetings, -- Camaleón (Sorry for the delay, but unavoidable) I am using KDE4 desktop. Reviewing the

Re: Password messed up

2010-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 04 May 2010 10:55:31 -0500, Don AE5K wrote: > Thanks Camaleón for the ideas. Here are my results: > > 1. The "cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep Layout" yields... > > (==) ServerLayout "Layout0" > > and a few lines below that I see "Keyboard0" Mmmm, I guess we have to interpret that as Xo

Re: Re: Password messed up

2010-05-04 Thread Don AE5K
How about "cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep Layout"? Anyway, unless otherwise specified, Xorg defaults to "us" keyboard. An easy way to check if the problem relies in your keyboard layout (or the problem comes from another side), is by creating a new user with password "123456" (an easy one t

Re: Password messed up

2010-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 04 May 2010 07:50:41 -0500, Don AE5K wrote: >> First idea would be keyboard country in X, but I bet you thought about >> that? Thierry > > Thanks for the idea Thierry! As I'm in the U.S., I plead ignorance on > what other countries must go through to make changes -- could you give > me d

Re: Password messed up

2010-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2010-05-04, Don wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem (actually more than one, but let's tackle this one > first) with my password on KDE log in screen no being accepted. The > password does work OK when logging in using command line / terminal. A similar thing happened to me in Gnome after a s

Re: Re: Password messed up

2010-05-04 Thread Don AE5K
First idea would be keyboard country in X, but I bet you thought about that? Thierry Thanks for the idea Thierry! As I'm in the U.S., I plead ignorance on what other countries must go through to make changes -- could you give me direction on how to check the "keyboard country" in X? I see i

Re: Password messed up

2010-05-03 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 04 May 2010 05:30:25 Don wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem (actually more than one, but let's tackle this one > first) with my password on KDE log in screen no being accepted. The > password does work OK when logging in using command line / terminal. > > I have 3 users, and all have t

Password messed up

2010-05-03 Thread Don
Hi, I have a problem (actually more than one, but let's tackle this one first) with my password on KDE log in screen no being accepted. The password does work OK when logging in using command line / terminal. I have 3 users, and all have this same situation. Their passwords work on CLI but