Help! Having a crisis here

J.L. Coenders fedora at universalgrid.nl
Tue Nov 23 21:30:40 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 23 November 2004 08:10 am, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a bit of a problem.
> > Something went wrong with my laptop. Sudden I could not login anymore.
> > KDM kept reporting dat it had some kind of error (A critical error
> > occurred. Please look at KDM's logfile(s) for more information or contact
> > your system administrator.) and I could not login anymore. However, when
> > I try to login over for instance ssh, I cannot either. So I think it is
> > probably not a problem with KDM, but with the login. I cannot login under
> > my normal user or under the root.
> > Do you have any idea how to get in and what steps to check what exactly
> > went wrong and how to fix it?
> > I think something went wrong with some files on my system, since I had
> > some problems with the disk also, however when I check the disk now, it's
> > clean. It could be that login files were damaged or something.
> >
> > It also tried using Knoppix to get on the system, which works and I can
> > read the kdm.log file under /var/log, but I cannot find any useful
> > information there, except for some keyboard error, but that is probably
> > not it.
> >
> > Please help, thanks,
> > Jeroen
> >
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> do boot in runlevel 1 and have a look at the apporpriate logfiles. Can you
> send us some more information? If you think, the loginfiles are damaged,
> look in /etc for passwd, shadow, groups and have a look for your users.
>
> Roger

Hmm, somehow I cannot send the logfiles to the list, they must be too big or 
something.

Jeroen




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