Re: Root Password No Longer Works in KDE

2004-04-16 Thread Scarletdown
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Scarletdown wrote: I have tried everything I could think of at the moment, short of doing the dreaded OS reinstall (apt-get --reinstall install x-window-system kde and apt-get --reinstall install kde did not fix it either.) I would really prefer to not have to

Re: Root Password No Longer Works in KDE

2004-04-13 Thread David Baron
This might be the best advice but mine still works in KDE so there may be somthing amiss. I had this happen when I was mucking around with PAM files attempting to get LDAP to work. (OK, NO logins worked!) Go in using the Knoppix CD and fixed that--what else was changed to cause the problem?)

Re: Root Password No Longer Works in KDE

2004-04-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Scarletdown wrote: Earlier today, I had a complete system freezeup for some reason. All I could do to recover was power down and boot back up. However, when kdm tried to run, I was dropped to a text login prompt. I went ahead and logged in as root and did an apt-get --reinstall install kdm;

Root Password No Longer Works in KDE

2004-04-11 Thread Scarletdown
Earlier today, I had a complete system freezeup for some reason. All I could do to recover was power down and boot back up. However, when kdm tried to run, I was dropped to a text login prompt. I went ahead and logged in as root and did an apt-get --reinstall install kdm; then i ran kdm and

Re: Root Password No Longer Works in KDE

2004-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
Scarletdown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know the password is good, because I am able to login as root from a text-prompt, and can also SSH in as root from another system; so I am suspecting a problem with KDE itself. As another test, I tried logging in to KDE as root from kdm, and that fails

Re: Root Password No Longer Works in KDE

2004-04-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Johnson wrote: Scarletdown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know the password is good, because I am able to login as root from a text-prompt, and can also SSH in as root from another system; so I am suspecting a problem with KDE itself. As another test, I tried logging in to KDE as root from

Re: Root Password No Longer Works in KDE

2004-04-11 Thread Scarletdown
Paul Johnson wrote: Scarletdown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know the password is good, because I am able to login as root from a text-prompt, and can also SSH in as root from another system; so I am suspecting a problem with KDE itself. As another test, I tried logging in to KDE as root from

Re: Root Password No Longer Works in KDE

2004-04-11 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 11 April 2004 09:18 pm, Scarletdown wrote: Earlier today, I had a complete system freezeup for some reason. All I could do to recover was power down and boot back up. However, when kdm tried to run, I was dropped to a text login prompt. I went ahead and logged in as root and did an