I experienced this same problem with Debian 11 with GNOME 3.38.5: I had tried
to change the Settings > Accessibility > Zoom Options > Magnifier Position from
'Magnifier cursor moves with contents'. The moment I selected the option
'Keep Magnifier Cursor centred', I was logged out & the login s
Dear Thomas,
If you can login as Bob on the command line, try
journalctl --user
and look for some error from your last login attempt to the gnome desktop.
If you cannot login on the command line as Bob, try
sudo journalctl
after logging in as Sally and look for some error from your last logi
Mr. Anderson,
can you login to the command line?
If so, you could check the file .xsession-errors in your home directory.
You can also switch with "Bob" to Xfce for testing purposes.
If you can't resolve it, backup your data from /home/bob and empty the
directory (start with a clean profile).
R
On 2016-11-05 17:44 +0100, m...@xlist.pw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> recently I upgraded my KVM based vserver from jessie to testing. The update
> went smooth and everything seemed to work. But when I tried to su to root or
> ssh with user root I get the error
>
> -bash: xmalloc: cannot allocate 80008
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 05:26:05PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Frank writes:
> > Another update came through laterabout 8 new packages and now at
> > least the desktop loads. Half the stuff is still missing. We'll see what
> > happens in the days ahead. I rarely use Gnome anyway. But now
On 18/10/11 04:26 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
Frank writes:
Another update came through laterabout 8 new packages and now at
least the desktop loads. Half the stuff is still missing. We'll see what
happens in the days ahead. I rarely use Gnome anyway. But now I am
curious.
My main complaint i
Frank writes:
> Another update came through laterabout 8 new packages and now at
> least the desktop loads. Half the stuff is still missing. We'll see what
> happens in the days ahead. I rarely use Gnome anyway. But now I am
> curious.
My main complaint is various settings seem to now be ign
On 14/10/11 06:35 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Big problems with gnomeshell over on the orca list, standard advice is
to remove gnomeshell and everything pretty much returns to normal. You
do understand you're using a version of gnome Linus Torvalds won't have
on any of his computers because he cons
Big problems with gnomeshell over on the orca list, standard advice is
to remove gnomeshell and everything pretty much returns to normal. You
do understand you're using a version of gnome Linus Torvalds won't have
on any of his computers because he considers it too inferior and he's
gone on ov
On 14/10/11 05:15 PM, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:52:53 -0400, Frank wrote:
On 14/10/11 01:30 PM, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
What is the error you are getting? Any pop-up message, anything under
the usual files (~/.xsession-errors, /var/log/Xorg.0.log), can you at
least login to the s
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:52:53 -0400, Frank wrote:
> On 14/10/11 01:30 PM, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> What is the error you are getting? Any pop-up message, anything under
>> the usual files (~/.xsession-errors, /var/log/Xorg.0.log), can you at
>> least login to the system from a tty? The more infor
On 14/10/11 01:30 PM, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:58:59 -0400, Frank wrote:
Did a full upgrade on my Sid system this morning...and now Gnome won't
load. The upgrade apparently took Gnome from 2 to 3 and the "infamous"
Gnome Shell.
I dunno what could have happened (is gnome-shell al
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:58:59 -0400, Frank wrote:
>
> > Did a full upgrade on my Sid system this morning...and now Gnome won't
> > load. The upgrade apparently took Gnome from 2 to 3 and the "infamous"
> > Gnome Shell.
> > Well something went wron
On 14/10/11 18:30, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:58:59 -0400, Frank wrote:
Did a full upgrade on my Sid system this morning...and now Gnome won't
load. The upgrade apparently took Gnome from 2 to 3 and the "infamous"
Gnome Shell.
Just for the record, I let the upgrade perform a coupl
In <20090821061430.b95afcb6.raq...@thericehouse.net>, Raquel wrote:
>Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
>> Raquel wrote:
>> > Ron Johnson wrote:
>> >> Raquel wrote:
>> >> > The machine has been hacked by someone using a Romanian IP
>> >>
>> >> How'd he get in?
>> >
>> > I found it! He got in through a vulner
Raquel wrote:
>>
>> Cite: "Note that the issue occurs only when the 'admin' directory
>> wasn't properly renamed during the installation process."
>>
>> is this true?
>>
>> means your fault!
>>
>> sorry and reagards
>>
>
> Yeah. I held a gun to his head and told him to break into my
>
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:57:50 +0200
Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> Raquel wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:59:39 -0500
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> >> > The machine has been hacked by someone using a Romanian IP
> >> > address and has been taken offline while I continue to
> >> > investigate. Then
Raquel wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:59:39 -0500
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>> > The machine has been hacked by someone using a Romanian IP address
>> > and has been taken offline while I continue to investigate. Then
>> > I'll do a new install and rebuild.
>>
>> How'd he get in?
>
> I found it
Raquel ha scritto:
> I have an odd problem that's developed, and have spent all afternoon
> trying to figure out what's going on. My web server (running Lenny) is
> running and serving pages. However, I cannot login to the server via
> SSH or at the console, which means that I cannot apply updates,
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:59:39 -0500
Ron Johnson wrote:
> > The machine has been hacked by someone using a Romanian IP address
> > and has been taken offline while I continue to investigate. Then
> > I'll do a new install and rebuild.
>
> How'd he get in?
I found it! He got in through a vulnera
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:59:39 -0500
Ron Johnson wrote:
> > The machine has been hacked by someone using a Romanian IP address
> > and has been taken offline while I continue to investigate. Then
> > I'll do a new install and rebuild.
>
> How'd he get in?
I'm working on that right now, but am pu
On 2009-08-20 12:44, Raquel wrote:
[snip]
root logins allowed and only one user allowed to login with a key. I
have a firewall and use fail2ban.
Separate h/w firewall, or a software firewall?
I've found that NATting routers give much better security for
"desktop" systems, since *typically* t
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:52:29 +0200
Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> Raquel wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm still getting the errors about not being able to load the
> > ssh_host_key.
> >
> > That's where I am and that's what I'm now working on.
> >
>
> did you install upgrades?
>
> I think the v1 protocol has
Raquel wrote:
>
> I'm still getting the errors about not being able to load the
> ssh_host_key.
>
> That's where I am and that's what I'm now working on.
>
did you install upgrades?
I think the v1 protocol has been disabled recently so may be editing the
sshd_config file or finding out why it
Raquel wrote:
> I've also tried booting from a Knoppix 6.0.1 CD, which automatically
> mounts all 3 drives. The drives are software RAID, which I don't
> know how to read. cd-ing to those drives shows no data.
>
What does it mean you can not read them but they are mounted???
If they are mounte
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:18:22 -0700
Raquel wrote:
> I have an odd problem that's developed, and have spent all afternoon
> trying to figure out what's going on. My web server (running Debian
> Lenny) is running and serving pages. However, I cannot login to the
> server via SSH or at the console, w
On 2009-08-19 20:39, Raquel wrote:
[snip]
At this point I'd love to be able to login as anything. I boot into
single mode using the GRUB menu and I'm still being asked for a login.
The boot dialog I get is:
Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshdCould not load host
key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_k
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:14:02 -0300
Ariel Laganá wrote:
> Hi Raquel,
>
> Are you trying to log in as root or as a regular user? Can you
> provide further detail about the error...
>
> In case you're having trouble attempting to login as root, you can
> run linux in single mode which will start a
Hi Raquel,
Are you trying to log in as root or as a regular user? Can you provide
further detail about the error...
In case you're having trouble attempting to login as root, you can run
linux in single mode which will start as root, without asking any password.
Restart the server, when the GRUB
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:51:43 -0700
"Kevin Ross" wrote:
> > From: Kevin Ross [mailto:ke...@familyross.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:45 PM
> >
> >
> > Boot from a Live or Rescue CD, mount your / partition, edit the
> /etc/shadow
> > file, and delete the password for root. Reboot wi
> From: Kevin Ross [mailto:ke...@familyross.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:45 PM
>
> > From: Raquel [mailto:raq...@thericehouse.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:18 PM
> >
> > I have an odd problem that's developed, and have spent all afternoon
> > trying to figure out what's
> From: Raquel [mailto:raq...@thericehouse.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:18 PM
>
> I have an odd problem that's developed, and have spent all afternoon
> trying to figure out what's going on. My web server (running Lenny) is
> running and serving pages. However, I cannot login to the s
S
- Original Message -
From: "MoS"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: Cannot login to computer after upgrade to Lenny
Hi ! The problem is finally solved !
I was also asking help on the debian-user-french list, merging
informations
from here and t
--
From: "Sven Joachim"
To:
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: Cannot login to computer after upgrade to Lenny
On 2009-06-01 17:04 +0200, MoS wrote:
# su
bash: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or director
Le Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:48:14PM +0200, Sven Joachim écrivait :
> On 2009-06-01 17:04 +0200, MoS wrote:
>
> > # su
> > bash: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared
> > object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > # cp
> > cp: missing file operand
> > Try `cp --h
t
MoS
- Original Message -
From: "Sven Joachim"
To:
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: Cannot login to computer after upgrade to Lenny
> On 2009-06-01 17:04 +0200, MoS wrote:
>
> > # su
> > bash: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.
On 2009-06-01 17:04 +0200, MoS wrote:
> # su
> bash: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
>
> # cp
> cp: missing file operand
> Try `cp --help' for more information.
So cp works, but su does not. I suspect this is because
On 2009-06-01 15:18 +0200, MoS wrote:
>
> # ls -la /lib/libdl*
> 12K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.5K Jan 4 19:11 /lib/libdl-2.7.so
> 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 May 31 13:09 /lib/libdl.so.2 -> libdl-2.7.so
>
> # ls -la /lib/i686/cmov/libdl*
> 12K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.5K Jan 4 19:12 /lib/i68
A guy from the debian-user-french mailing list suggested me to check the
integrity of the file "/lib/libdl-2.7.so" (I removed package "libc6-i686", so
/lib/i686 directory was removed), and the validity of the link
"/lib/libdl.so.2", and I got this strange log :
# su
bash: error while loading
Le Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 09:53:37AM +0200, Sven Joachim écrivait :
> On 2009-05-31 23:33 +0200, MoS wrote:
>
> > Le Sun, May 31, 2009 at 04:40:02PM +0200, Sven Joachim écrivait :
> >
> > Well I must say I'm not very comfortable with that kind of low-level
> > stuff...
> > You are right, package l
On 2009-05-31 23:33 +0200, MoS wrote:
> Le Sun, May 31, 2009 at 04:40:02PM +0200, Sven Joachim écrivait :
>
> Well I must say I'm not very comfortable with that kind of low-level stuff...
> You are right, package libc6-i686 is installed :
>
> # dpkg -l |grep libc6
> ii libc6
Le Sun, May 31, 2009 at 04:40:02PM +0200, Sven Joachim écrivait :
> On 2009-05-31 14:48 +0200, MoS wrote:
>
> > I finally upgraded my computer to Lenny, following the release notes
> > advices, and everything seemed to have worked quite well.
> > But after the reboot, I cannot login anymore !
> >
On 2009-05-31 14:48 +0200, MoS wrote:
> I finally upgraded my computer to Lenny, following the release notes advices,
> and everything seemed to have worked quite well.
> But after the reboot, I cannot login anymore !
> The system complains about a missing library (libdl.so.2) ??
>
> A "failsafe"
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 21:21:43 +0200, Torsten A. wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm having trouble to login to my Debian Lenny, indepent whether I wan't to
> login using gdm or plain at the console. Another is that I don't know much
> about Linux, I am still trying to get along with it.
>
> The p
On Friday 17 October 2008 21:21:43 Torsten A. wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm having trouble to login to my Debian Lenny, indepent whether I wan't to
> login using gdm or plain at the console. Another is that I don't know much
> about Linux, I am still trying to get along with it.
>
> Cheers,
> To
Hello!
> > As I said before, this is a PAM issue. Install the package
> > 'libpam-runtime'
> >
> > -- Thomas Adam
>
> My problem persists after "dpkg -i libpam-runtime_0.76-22_all.deb".
> This deb (unstable) version should be the same as that was installed in
> my another running hardware as I f
> As I said before, this is a PAM issue. Install the package
> 'libpam-runtime'
>
> -- Thomas Adam
My problem persists after "dpkg -i libpam-runtime_0.76-22_all.deb".
This deb (unstable) version should be the same as that was installed in
my another running hardware as I ftped it from its
/var/ca
Hi! Thomas,
> More likely this is a PAM misconfiguration. A persual of /etc/pam.d/su
> should help determine this.
>
I have just did cmp the two su files from the running box and the
problematic one. They are identical and the effective lines follows:
auth sufficient pam_rootok.so
@includ
--- CN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi! Ricky,
>
> I have successfully booted to single user mode and installed strace and
> have acquired the following excerpt of its output. Someone please
> interpret it for me?
As I said before, this is a PAM issue. Install the package
'libpam-runtime'
-- Th
Hi! Ricky,
I have successfully booted to single user mode and installed strace and
have acquired the following excerpt of its output. Someone please
interpret it for me?
Regards,
CN
=
[snip]
time([1089177704]) = 1089177704
getpid()
--- Ricky Clarkson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know much of the way things work here, but you can probably use:
>
> strace -o sulog.txt su -
More likely this is a PAM misconfiguration. A persual of /etc/pam.d/su
should help determine this.
-- Thomas Adam
=
"The Linux Weekend Mech
I don't know much of the way things work here, but you can probably use:
strace -o sulog.txt su -
[the final - is optional - man su]
Then read sulog.txt, it might give a clue as to what it was trying to do.
strace is in the strace package - if you can't install because you're
not root you can p
Hello! Simon,
Thank you for the prompt help! I double checked my box and confirmed
that these files/lines do exist.
By the way, the exact error message from "su" is
su: Module is unknown
Sorry.
and login from other boxes or system console (not xterm) to localhost
yields error:
System boot up i
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 19:11, CN wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have installed woody in 3 boxes. Suddently I can't login to one of
> them.
> I am not sure if this problem has to do with the upgrade of wine package
> (version 20040615).
>
> Now I have only 2 ways to access this problematic box:
> (1) using boo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a very small private LAN with only two machines:
>
> * a Debian box running netatalk 1.5.5 server
>
> * a TiBook running Mac OS X Jaguar
>
> and connected via Ethernet crossover cable. The network seems to work
> fine for other network functions (for example, p
> Have you checked the system logs on the Linux machine? I don't know
> which logfile the Debian package uses (I use netatalk on a non-Debian
> machine), but when I was having some problems the syslog messages were
> more useful than the generic error message I got on the client.
Yes, I've checked
> Have you checked the system logs on the Linux machine? I don't know
> which logfile the Debian package uses (I use netatalk on a non-Debian
> machine), but when I was having some problems the syslog messages were
> more useful than the generic error message I got on the client.
Yes, I've checked
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:54:44AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I do Go -> Connect to server from the Finder on the TiBook, the
> Debian box shows up in the "Connect to server" window. I then select it
> and enter my username and password to the Debian box. After quite a
> while, authen
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:36:33PM -0600, Kevin Strong wrote:
> Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the root
> password but I can login using other users logins. Is there anything I can
> do to regain the ability to login as root other than rebuilding the
> server.Than
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Panuganty, Ramesh wrote:
> Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the
> root password but I can login using other users logins. Is there
> anything I can do to regain the ability to login as root other than
> rebuilding the server.Thanks for the help
-Original Message-
From: Kevin Strong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:37 PM
To: Debian User (E-mail)
Subject: Cannot login using root password
Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the
root password but I can login using other users l
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Matthew Twomey wrote:
> 1. Boot up from some other media that has it's own root partition and get
> to a shell. I'm not sure what specifically Debian has for this, but
> basically any Linux boot disk set will do.
I think Debian's rescue disk will do this. If not, tomsrtbt wi
--- Kevin Strong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian
> system using the root
> password but I can login using other users logins.
> Is there anything I can
> do to regain the ability to login as root other than
> rebuilding the
> server.Thanks for the
> Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the
> root
> password but I can login using other users logins. Is there anything I
> can
> do to regain the ability to login as root other than rebuilding the
> server.Thanks for the help in advance.
http://qref.sourceforge.net/q
Unless you've left some backdoor for yourself (which would have been a bad
idea anyway), you're left with booting from cdrom, or a resuce disk set.
The basic procedure is as follows:
1. Boot up from some other media that has it's own root partition and get
to a shell. I'm not sure what specifical
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:36:33PM -0600, Kevin Strong wrote:
> Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the root
> password but I can login using other users logins. Is there anything I can
> do to regain the ability to login as root other than rebuilding the
> server.Than
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 04:08:11PM +0200, Mayer, Christian (Dregis) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i cannot login to X anymore since upgrade from potato to woody. Does anybody
> have an idea. the login-screen (kdm) appears, i give in login and pw it
> seems as if it wanted to start my kde-session but then falls
enter Millahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Timmy Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: Cannot login to woody box (i386) --> SOLVED
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Timmy Douglas wrote:
>
> >
enter Millahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Timmy Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: Cannot login to woody box (i386) --> SOLVED
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Timmy Douglas wrote:
>
> >
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Timmy Douglas wrote:
> you need to boot into single usermode:
>
> LILO: linuxkernelname single
>
> i think somehow you got sid's libpam modules.
> anyways, they are fixed so once you are root, update and upgrade again
Thanks. The System is repaired now.
I did a login on the
you need to boot into single usermode:
LILO: linuxkernelname single
i think somehow you got sid's libpam modules.
anyways, they are fixed so once you are root, update and upgrade again
Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> > Today I tried kdm, but i cannot login at the kdm prompt. I've heard
> > about this problem, but I cannot find the message in my archive.
> >
> > Debian 2.2
> > Kernel 2.4.3
> > KDE2
> >
> > Ciao!
> > juh
>
> What happens when you try?? Can you s
Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
>
> Today I tried kdm, but i cannot login at the kdm prompt. I've heard
> about this problem, but I cannot find the message in my archive.
>
> Debian 2.2
> Kernel 2.4.3
> KDE2
>
> Ciao!
> juh
What happens when you try?? Can you start X from the console?
Frank
> Guys,
>
> I know that this list does not deal with Red Hat Linux issues, but then
this
> is the most helpful list that I can think of that has good support. The
> discussion list on redhat.com sux. Typically I use Debian on my system.
> Since this is my company's server...
>
> Ok, here's the pr
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On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Carroll Kong wrote:
> Hey guys. Big problem... I had freebsd 3.0 sitting around, decided to
> mount my linux ext2fs partitions with it. I umounted it... rebooted back
> into linux. Now I can ONLY login as root. If I login as myse
Hey guys. Big problem... I had freebsd 3.0 sitting around, decided to
mount my linux ext2fs partitions with it. I umounted it... rebooted back
into linux. Now I can ONLY login as root. If I login as myself it says.
"cannot cd /home/damascus"
And.. if I su damascus as root it says
"su
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