Re: Help! Can't log in any more
From: Kent West (westk_at_acu.edu)
Date: 03/24/05
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 05:32:48 -0600 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
David Jarvie wrote:
>Last night I was working on my Sarge system, running a self-compiled version
>of KDE 3.3, when suddenly I couldn't execute any commands or do anything at
>all under my user login. I was able to switch to a console and log in as
>root, where things worked normally. But I couldn't 'su' to my user login. I
>even rebooted the system, but that didn't help.
>
>
><snip>
>
>
>The symptoms are:
>
>1) kdm still displays the login screen, but login fails after I try to log
>in under my user account. There are messages in the log files about missing
>permissions on /tmp, /home/david, etc. I checked /tmp's permissions, and
>they are still read-write-execute for everybody.
>
>
/tmp should be:
drwxrwxrwt 21 root root 7168 Mar 23 09:45 /tmp
>3) While logged on as root in a console, when I do an 'su david', it gives
>an error message "No shell" (I can't remember the exact wording), and fails
>to log me on.
>
>4) When I do an 'su - david', I get error messages about not being able to
>cd to /home/david. Again the login fails. /home/david still exists, and has
>owner 'david'.
>
>
>
I'd suggest posting the output of "ls -ld /home/david"; also the perms
within /home/david might be apropos.
>6) I don't have any other user accounts set up on the system, so I haven't
>tried logging in under other users.
>
>
I'd try creating a new user and see if that user works.
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