> Hi, > I have a bit of a problem. > Something went wrong with my laptop. Sudden I could not login anymore. KDM > kept reporting dat it had some kind of error (A critical error occurred. > Please look at KDM's logfile(s) for more information or contact your system > administrator.) and I could not login anymore. However, when I try to login > over for instance ssh, I cannot either. So I think it is probably not a > problem with KDM, but with the login. I cannot login under my normal user or > under the root. > Do you have any idea how to get in and what steps to check what exactly went > wrong and how to fix it? > I think something went wrong with some files on my system, since I had some > problems with the disk also, however when I check the disk now, it's clean. > It could be that login files were damaged or something. > > It also tried using Knoppix to get on the system, which works and I can read > the kdm.log file under /var/log, but I cannot find any useful information > there, except for some keyboard error, but that is probably not it. > > Please help, thanks, > Jeroen > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > do boot in runlevel 1 and have a look at the apporpriate logfiles. Can you send us some more information? If you think, the loginfiles are damaged, look in /etc for passwd, shadow, groups and have a look for your users. Roger
