Can't logon as root or any other user

cloneu2 · #1 2nd October 2008, 10:00 AM

Did an upgrade to rawhide yesterday from f9. The problem is that when I boot and get the gdm log on screen I type in root and my password it just says wrong password. I boot up in run level 3 and enter the user and password all is fine then I can startx to get to gnome. Tired of that so I put in this in the home dir .xinitrc exec startkde. Now I can boot up in run level 3 and login. Then when I startx I get KDE.

I would love to fix either the login with gdm of kdm

----------------------------------------------------------Update Log -----------------------------------------------------------------------
<86>Oct 1 12:56:05 useradd[3451]: failed adding user `hsqldb', data deleted
<86>Oct 1 12:56:09 userdel[3515]: delete user `rpc'

<86>Oct 1 12:56:09 userdel[3515]: removed group `rpc' owned by `rpc'

<86>Oct 1 12:56:12 groupadd[3526]: new group: name=rpc, GID=32
<86>Oct 1 12:56:12 useradd[3530]: new user: name=rpc, UID=32, GID=32, home=/var/lib/rpcbind, shell=/sbin/nologin
<86>Oct 1 12:56:59 useradd[3927]: failed adding user `nscd', data deleted
<86>Oct 1 12:57:23 groupadd[3996]: new group: name=oprofile, GID=495
<86>Oct 1 12:57:24 useradd[4001]: new user: name=oprofile, UID=492, GID=495, home=/home/oprofile, shell=/sbin/nologin
<86>Oct 1 13:00:03 useradd[4763]: failed adding user `tcpdump', data deleted
<86>Oct 1 13:00:27 useradd[4847]: failed adding user `dbus', data deleted
<86>Oct 1 13:00:28 useradd[4852]: failed adding user `polkituser', data deleted
<86>Oct 1 13:02:05 useradd[6109]: failed adding user `mailnull', data deleted
<86>Oct 1 13:02:05 useradd[6110]: failed adding user `smmsp', data deleted
<21>Oct 1 13:02:07 sendmail[6116]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by root
<22>Oct 1 13:02:07 sendmail[6116]: /etc/aliases: 76 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 765 bytes total
<86>Oct 1 13:03:10 useradd[10107]: failed adding user `apache', data deleted
<86>Oct 1 13:03:12 useradd[10111]: failed adding user `rpcuser', data deleted
<86>Oct 1 13:07:36 useradd[10846]: failed adding user `jetty', data deleted
<86>Oct 1 13:07:40 useradd[10877]: failed adding user `haldaemon', data deleted
<86>Oct 1 13:10:40 useradd[11028]: failed adding user `gdm', data deleted
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TIA

john

ps.
f10 is the one!

OralDeckard · #2 2nd October 2008, 08:47 PM

They set it to not allow root login at the greeter for security reasons.

cloneu2 · #3 3rd October 2008, 12:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OralDeckard

They set it to not allow root login at the greeter for security reasons.

Thanks... I figured that out after a reformat. Now I am running the PAE kernel but I think I'm going to go with the x86_64.. Just so I can have fun with my nvidia card...