Re: can't login with root or user after 1.2 upgrade

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If you can log in as any other user,  you can open a terminal (sorry) and
"telinit 3" to get to a command line. Login as root and look for the old
gdm.conf which I think gets renamed to gdm.config.sav  copy the current file to
another backup  in case there are some changes you really need ("cp gdm.conf
badgdm.conf" ) and then "mv gdm.conf.sav gdm.conf" , then "telinit 5" and you
should be good to go, provided the gdm.conf was the problem. Oh, yeah you could
also just ftp down an older version of gdm (but I have no idea what problems
this might cause) and use rpm -e gdm(current packname).rpm and them rpm -ivh
gdm(olderpackage). Keep in mind, that updates are usually done with a good
reason so backdating might not be something you really want to do.



Darryl



Joss Winn wrote:

> thanks for the quick reply.
>
> So how might I correct this with only the failsafe terminal at my disposal?
>
> Thank you
>
> Joss (allergic to the terminal) Winn
>
> on 00.7.13 7:51 AM, Rob Brown-Bayliss at rob@procom.co.nz wrote:
>
> >
> >> login screen.  I enter the user name or root and password and it just
> >> returns me to the login again.  I can get somewhere with failsafe and
> >> another level but all else fails.
> >
> > I have had a similar problem every time I update GDM, so I don't bother
> > unless it's a major fix.
> >
> > To fix it I restore my previous gdm.conf and the other files I may have
> > changed.  I usually make a backup of the whole gdm directory befor running
> > the gdm update.  I think the main problem is the <prefix>/gdm/Init/Default
> > file...
> >
> > This is one of my pet hates with the whole RPM system, nearly every RPM
> > overwrites your previous config files with the new defaults, though they
> > mostly seem to save the old config first.
> >
> > But it's anoying.
> >
> >
>
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