RE: Urgent help needed with Login problems after installation of FC1

From: Gary Rickert (garyrickert_at_comcast.net)
Date: 05/04/04

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Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 12:52:38 -0500

    I am at my wits end. This is/ is intended to be a production machine to test
    and package our software, and I must get going.
    The system:
    AMD XP 2800+ Barton
    Asus a7n8x-la Nforce2 mobo
    Nvidia mx-440 onboard graphics
    512mb PC-2700
    120gb Western Digital hd
    Samsung 16x DVD-ROM
    Cyberdrive 52x CD-R/RW
    Generic Floppy drive
    6-port Media Card Reader

    Since Gnome looked to be working OK, I went ahead and reinstalled adding the
    database and other packages I will need and I am back to where I was before,
    can't login. I booted single user, tried to su to my user and get su:
    Incorrect password. Changed password and same. Created dummy user, password
    and same. CD /HOME ls -l shows
    drwx 3 user 500 ...
    drwx 3 user2 user2 ...
    I know ther are folks out there that know this stuff, while I can still call
    it "stuff", and I could sure use an idea of what to do next.

    I have cleaned up this message history to make it easier to read. Thanks
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    Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:08 AM

    >From Gnome desktop, I was able to logout user, login root, over and over.
    Tried it from terminal again and same symptom.

    Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:28 AM

    Load with Gnome desktop went OK. Am able to boot from floppy. From Gnome
    desktop/terminal, I was able to su to root, su to user, and then got same
    symptom trying to su back to root.

    Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 7:44 AM

    df shows hdb2 as /, hdb1 as /boot, and none as /dev/shm.???

    Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 7:41 AM

    After another minimal install, I was able to add my user and su to it and su
    back to root. By the way, I was unable to boot using the boot floppy.
    Apparently set a password (all authentication tokens updated successfully)
    and change again to my user. However, it did not ask for a password. Was
    able to su to root and user several times. Do get "/bin/bash: /root/
    .bashrc: permission denied" message.

    Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 6:56 AM

    Still fighting, and need some ideas.
    I did a minimal install and was able to login as root, create and login to
    my user. All looks well. Installed again, adding only X-windows. X did not
    start with boot. Ran startx & to get session. Same story but was unable to
    su - after logging as my user. Started another x session and was able to su
    - from there, however I was not able to su back to root after changing back
    to my user again. Tried in another X and same symptom. Again same. This
    should be a good clue, I would think. It is like it does not read the passwd
    when I return. Have to ctrl c to get out of the passwd entry on the su -.

    Don't know if I tried the su root...user...root in the minimum install, so I
    am going to do that again.

    Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 2:07 PM

    I solved the dual boot problem. There is a setting for how long the boot
    option display, and it was set to 0. Set it to 10 and it works fine. The
    login problem is still a problem. I have reloaded FC1 once again and I still
    cannot login, root or my user. The passwd and edited shadow files are
    attached in case I am missing something.

    Jeff Vian
    Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 12:22 PM

    As far as Fedora not allowing user login; I usually use the system tool
    for user admin from the menu and as long as I create the user account
    and put in the password for that user they always can log in.

    >>>I installed Fedora, default server on a new slave drive on my HP pavilion
    >>>a320n XP system. When booting after the install, the fedora boot will not
    >>>accept my user or root password. Under "linux single" I can see that the
    >>>user and root accounts exist. I can create a user, and that works OK. I
    >>>cannot login.
    >>> 

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