On Tuesday 04 May 2004 13:52, Gary Rickert wrote: >I am at my wits end. This is/ is intended to be a production machine > to test and package our software, and I must get going. >The system: >AMD XP 2800+ Barton >Asus a7n8x-la Nforce2 mobo >Nvidia mx-440 onboard graphics >512mb PC-2700 >120gb Western Digital hd >Samsung 16x DVD-ROM >Cyberdrive 52x CD-R/RW >Generic Floppy drive >6-port Media Card Reader > >Since Gnome looked to be working OK, I went ahead and reinstalled > adding the database and other packages I will need and I am back to > where I was before, can't login. I booted single user, tried to su > to my user and get su: Incorrect password. Changed password and > same. Created dummy user, password and same. CD /HOME ls -l shows >drwx 3 user 500 ... >drwx 3 user2 user2 ... >I know ther are folks out there that know this stuff, while I can > still call it "stuff", and I could sure use an idea of what to do > next. > I did an update from a rh8.0 with many upgrades already in. I had to rpm -ivh the correct util-linux for a 2.6 kernel (I run one) before login would do anything but loop back to the Login: prompt. It may be, but I don't know, that there actually is a problem with the FC1 util-linux package. I don't *think* its supposed to be kernel sensitive, but thats just personal opinion, subject to correction by a younger whippersnapper. >I have cleaned up this message history to make it easier to read. > Thanks > ------------------------------------------------------------------- >----- > >Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:08 AM > >From Gnome desktop, I was able to logout user, login root, over and > over. Tried it from terminal again and same symptom. > >Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:28 AM > >Load with Gnome desktop went OK. Am able to boot from floppy. From > Gnome desktop/terminal, I was able to su to root, su to user, and > then got same symptom trying to su back to root. > >Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 7:44 AM > >df shows hdb2 as /, hdb1 as /boot, and none as /dev/shm.??? > >Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 7:41 AM > >After another minimal install, I was able to add my user and su to > it and su back to root. By the way, I was unable to boot using the > boot floppy. Apparently set a password (all authentication tokens > updated successfully) and change again to my user. However, it did > not ask for a password. Was able to su to root and user several > times. Do get "/bin/bash: /root/ .bashrc: permission denied" > message. > >Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 6:56 AM > >Still fighting, and need some ideas. >I did a minimal install and was able to login as root, create and > login to my user. All looks well. Installed again, adding only > X-windows. X did not start with boot. Ran startx & to get session. > Same story but was unable to su - after logging as my user. Started > another x session and was able to su - from there, however I was > not able to su back to root after changing back to my user again. > Tried in another X and same symptom. Again same. This should be a > good clue, I would think. It is like it does not read the passwd > when I return. Have to ctrl c to get out of the passwd entry on the > su -. > >Don't know if I tried the su root...user...root in the minimum > install, so I am going to do that again. > >Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 2:07 PM > >I solved the dual boot problem. There is a setting for how long the > boot option display, and it was set to 0. Set it to 10 and it works > fine. The login problem is still a problem. I have reloaded FC1 > once again and I still cannot login, root or my user. The passwd > and edited shadow files are attached in case I am missing > something. > >Jeff Vian >Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 12:22 PM > >As far as Fedora not allowing user login; I usually use the system > tool for user admin from the menu and as long as I create the user > account and put in the password for that user they always can log > in. > >>>>I installed Fedora, default server on a new slave drive on my HP >>>> pavilion a320n XP system. When booting after the install, the >>>> fedora boot will not accept my user or root password. Under >>>> "linux single" I can see that the user and root accounts exist. >>>> I can create a user, and that works OK. I cannot login. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
