On Tuesday 23 November 2004 08:10 am, Roger Grosswiler wrote: > > 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 Hmm, somehow I cannot send the logfiles to the list, they must be too big or something. Jeroen
