Re: Failsafe mode

From: mbjj (mbjj1_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 09/19/05 

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:17:06 GMT

Robert Hull wrote:

> In alt.os.linux.suse, on Sunday 18 September 2005 22:33, mbjj
> <mbjj1@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Here is what I have. I boot up into the bootup screen if I let it
>> continue to autologon as my primary user [lets call it ABCD] it
>> takes me to a blank screen with a terminal command line in the
>> upper right hand corner.
>
> What does this "terminal command line" say?
>
>> It puts me to my home directory
>> commandline prompt. Startx does not work.
>
> Define "does not work" - my crystal ball is somewhat cloudy tonight
> and I am having difficulty reading your thoughts
>
>> It gives me an invalid
>> message.
>
> Define "invalid message" - my crystal ball is somewhat cloudy
> tonight and I am having difficulty reading your thoughts
>
> Better still, just tell us what the message says (as you have
> already been asked to do). Please do not approximate, either cut
> and paste or failing that copy the message down character for
> character
>
>> If I exit out and log back in as my alternate user
>> [lets callt it ABCDEFG] it'll start X and all is well.
>
> So you know that *something* works - for whatever value of something
> is defined by what you wrote above
>
>> If I exit
>> [out and
>> try to log back in as ABCD I get an invalid login message.
>
> Define "invalid login message" - my crystal ball is somewhat cloudy
> tonight and I am having difficulty reading your thoughts
>
> Better still, just tell us what the message says. Please do not
> approximate, either cut and paste or failing that copy the message
> down character for character
>
>> What am
>> I looking for in YaST that will let me [as ABCD] change the
>> session setting and go back to my normal logon or let me choose
>> who I want to log in as.
>
> When you tell us what is wrong, not just "doesn't work ...invalid
> message", someone may be able to tell you what to change to correct
> the reported error. Meanwhile, perhaps you could tell me why my
> 35mm camera doesn't work?
>
Sorry I haven't been more clear. I just booted up the other machine and it
goes through the normal bootup, green screen with the circles moving around
the icon. After all of the devices are started it takes me to my primary
user command line prompt in the upper left corner and a black blank screen.
If I ctl alt F1 I get the system login prompt. If I login as me there it
tells me my login is incorrect. CTL ALT F7 takes me back to where I was
when I F1'd out of the terminal. If I move the curser out of the CL
terminal I get the "X" moving curser. When I slide it back into the
terminal I get the flashing icon and a working terminal. If I do an ls -al
command I'll get all of the normal directories. I have to type exit to
escape out of the terminal to get into the GUI logon screen. At this point
I can pick and choose normally gnome, KDE etc but I have to do it as the
alternate user that I have set up for myself. I have full use of
everything I need to do as my second user and can even log in again as root
if I choose. What I can't do is log in as me ie the primary user. When I
log in as me and enter the password it tells me in red letters login
failed. Regardless of the type session I want to use. It's like my profile
is gone. I apologize for not being clearer but each time I go back into the
other box I learn a little more about what's going on. I have full access
to all of the rpm's I added after the initial install and right now I'm
reconfiguring them into my secondary user desktop. I really think the
primary profile is gone. Is there any way to get that back? I'm looking at
this as an exercise in setting it all up again and I always learn something
when this kind of thing happens.

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