Alexander Dalloz wrote: >Am Fr, den 11.11.2005 schrieb Arne Drechsler um 8:59: > > > >>after activating "Start Sound Server" in gnome desktop settings->sound, >>I'm not able to login anymore. gdm says authentication failure. Created >>new user -> same effect. Any idea, anybody ? I'm using Fedora Core 4, >>CMI8738 sound chip onboard. CMI8738 recognized allright in hardware browser. >> >>Thx arne >> >> > >While I believe you that you can't login at gdm any longer, I have some >doubts that one has to do with the other. >Are you able to login at console (Ctrl+Alt+F1)? Run "authconfig" command >to make sure the settings are proper. Maybe you try to graphically login >as root (which would be bad anyway) and you disabled that possibility in >gdm setup. > >Alexander > > > > Yes, i can login at console as usual user. And yes, for some reason i can login to gnome as root (although i will never do it again ;) ). I think i will try to delete gnome settings...
