On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 23:09, Howard Lowndes wrote: > On 1 Aug 2002, Ken Foskey wrote: > > > I have a server very nearly ready to roll but it just stuffed up the tty > > login. I type root at the login prompt it waits and rolls back to the > > original prompt, no password request. > > > > I type student (other default signon) same thing. > > > > It does fire up straight into student using GDM however. I am confused. > > Quick stab. It might be a pam problem. Have a look in /var/log/messages.
The work around I applied was to boot into single user mode... 'linux single' I then ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. It refreshed a number of libraries and my problem disappeared. It must have been something I upgraded recently. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
