On Sunday 11 April 2004 09:18 pm, Scarletdown wrote: >Earlier today, I had a complete system freezeup for some reason. All I >could do to recover was power down and boot back up. However, when kdm >tried to run, I was dropped to a text login prompt. > >I went ahead and logged in as root and did an apt-get --reinstall >install kdm; then i ran kdm and was able to get to the graphical login >screen. When I logged into the KDE desktop, I discovered that I was >unable to do anything that required the root password (su, kpackage, >etc). I keep getting "Authentication failure". > >I know the password is good, because I am able to login as root from a >text-prompt, and can also SSH in as root from another system; so I am >suspecting a problem with KDE itself. As another test, I tried logging >in to KDE as root from kdm, and that fails as well. > >And even more odd is, everytime I reboot, kdm fails and drops me to a >text-based login, and I have to once again do an apt-get --reinstall >install kdm. > >I have tried everything I could think of at the moment, short of doing >the dreaded OS reinstall (apt-get --reinstall install x-window-system >kde and apt-get --reinstall install kde did not fix it either.) I would >really prefer to not have to reinstall, since it took me forever the >first time around to get the nVidia video drivers configured right, and >I can't remember whether or not I took down notes on how I did it. > >So, if anyone here can make sense of my rather rambling description of >this root password problem, please give some advice on how to get things >back to normal. Thanks.
This is a long shot. Try this file in your /etc/pam.d directory. Jeff
# # /etc/pam.d/kdm - specify the PAM behaviour of kdm # # The standard Unix authentication modules, used with # NIS (man nsswitch) as well as normal /etc/passwd and # /etc/shadow entries. [EMAIL PROTECTED] common-auth @include common-account # Remove include common-password line for no password logins [EMAIL PROTECTED] common-password @include common-session auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_permit.so session required pam_limits.so
