Re: Can't log in after Stretch to Buster upgrade

2020-09-04 Thread cgibbs
On Fri Sep 4 12:07:23 2020 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 11:09:45AM -0700, cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote: > >> OpenSSL version mismatch. Built against 1010104f, you have 1010006f > >> # find . -print | grep -i ssh [output abridged] >> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-como

Re: Can't log in after Stretch to Buster upgrade

2020-09-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 11:09:45AM -0700, cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote: > OpenSSL version mismatch. Built against 1010104f, you have 1010006f > # find . -print | grep -i ssh [output abridged] > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-comon_ssh-agent > /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop > /usr/l

Re: Can't log in after Stretch to Buster upgrade

2020-09-04 Thread cgibbs
On Fri Sep 4 08:56:44 2020 Mike Kupfer wrote: > cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote: > >> I'll continue puttering for a few more days - maybe others will have >> some ideas. > > So were there any errors or warnings in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Nothing there. > I'd also check for error messages in $HOM

Re: Can't log in after Stretch to Buster upgrade

2020-09-03 Thread Mike Kupfer
cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote: > I'll continue puttering for a few more days - maybe others will have > some ideas. So were there any errors or warnings in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? I'd also check for error messages in $HOME/.xsession-errors. regards, mike

Re: Can't log in after Stretch to Buster upgrade

2020-09-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 02 sep 20, 11:13:30, cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote: > > I found instructions on the web for upgrading Stretch to Buster, Do you mean these? https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/releasenotes Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP s

Re: Can't log in after Stretch to Buster upgrade

2020-09-02 Thread cgibbs
On Wed Sep 2 21:32:55 2020 Andy Smith wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 11:13:30AM -0700, cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote: > >> The Buster upgrade seemed to work OK. I re-booted and got to my >> xfce login screen. But when I entered my user ID and password, >> the screen blanked for a second or

Re: Can't log in after Stretch to Buster upgrade

2020-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 11:13:30AM -0700, cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote: > The Buster upgrade seemed to work OK. I re-booted and got to my > xfce login screen. But when I entered my user ID and password, > the screen blanked for a second or so, then came back to a blank > login screen. Use c

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-27 Thread Pascal Obry
Same issue here. I found 2 solutions: 1. Use lightdm as DM. 2. Revert the glx diversions with: > sudo apt-get install -t testing glx-alternative-nvidia/testing glx > -diversions/testing nvidia-kernel-dkms/testing nvidia-driver/testing > libegl1-nvidia/testing I didn't tried with today update

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-26 Thread ray
Lisi, I like the idea of changing the display manager. I chose LXDE for sufficient functionality and light weight and because I have read the Gnome did not support remote desktop in jessie or stretch. Do you have a suggestion for choices? Maybe it doesn't matter, I can always change. That

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-26 Thread John L. Cunningham
I'm having a similar problem on a Jessie install. I don't think it's the display manager. When I log in via the shell, I get an error message saying the user has no home directory and starts with the home directory of "/". Since I don't have permission to read anything on the root, it makes s

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-25 Thread ray
Thank you all for the input. My 1.5 TB disk is not full; I only have Debian on it. I found I can login with the shell. As Lisi points out, this is probably a display manager issue. I logged in as root so I could use the GUI to make it easier to follow suggestions and record the results. Here

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 22 September 2015 00:00:04 Facundo Aguilera wrote: > Hi! I'm having a very similar problem. I can't login after today's > upgrade. I tried from a console, but it's the same, it shows the > welcome message and then the screen is "cleared", asking for the login > name again. The is no diff

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread Facundo Aguilera
Hi! I'm having a very similar problem. I can't login after today's upgrade. I tried from a console, but it's the same, it shows the welcome message and then the screen is "cleared", asking for the login name again. The is no difference if I try to login with root user. I was able to login with su

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread Linux 4 Bene
Op Mon, 21 Sep 2015 02:31:08 -0700, schreef ray: I have had this happen when my harddisk was at 100%. I got as far as the graphical login, but it didn't accept my login. I'm not sure but I believe I logged in via ssh or maybe I was still connected. I don't recall that. Anyway, on my end it was

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread Heracles
On 21/09/15 22:49, ray wrote: Sven Thank you very much. I have installed LXDE and I don't know how to open a console. Please suggest how I might learn to do that. I had a similar problem with a version of ubuntu after making a lot of changes. To fix the problem I created a new user and th

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
Opening a console is same for all sorts of linux distros... ctrl+alt+f4 do your job, and then try any of the combination of ctrl+alt+f*(*: 0-9), if that doesn't work, you can reboot from console sudo shutdown -r now Regarding recovering password, you should read the following, which should probabl

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread ray
Sven Thank you very much. I have installed LXDE and I don't know how to open a console. Please suggest how I might learn to do that.

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 02:31 -0700, ray wrote: > Another approach I tried was to log in as root (I did not expect that > to work). So I issued: > passwd . > I responded to the two password queries and received a success > signal. I would expect that to solve the issue. > > After logging off, I a

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread ray
Lisi Thank you. Another approach I tried was to log in as root (I did not expect that to work). So I issued: passwd . I responded to the two password queries and received a success signal. I would expect that to solve the issue. After logging off, I attempted to log in with the updated pa

Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 21 September 2015 02:06:47 ray wrote: > I cannot log on. I don't know if this is related, I was setting up for > remote desktop, setup a password for the remote session. After rebooting, > my normal user and password do not work and my rdp password does not work. > > What can I do to re

Re: Can't log in after apt-get upgrade

2000-12-13 Thread Ross Boylan
The dependency is present in gnome-session 1.2.4-helix2, but not helix1. Here's the before and after for the dist-upgrade I just did, which does seem to have fixed the problem. I filed a bug report with helix, since it's not clear to me that helix2 actually fixed the problem, or if I fixed it as

Re: Can't log in after apt-get upgrade

2000-12-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:19:25AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > Definitely a similar problem here. Thanks to you and others for the > ctl-atl-Fn trick. > > My .gnome-errors says > /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option UMASK > /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: /etc/login.defs: "UMA

Re: Can't log in after apt-get upgrade

2000-12-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Definitely a similar problem here. Thanks to you and others for the ctl-atl-Fn trick. My .gnome-errors says /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option UMASK /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: /etc/login.defs: "UMASK" is "022" /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for optio

Re: Can't log in after apt-get upgrade

2000-12-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > I had the identical systems. Logging in on a text console (alt-ctl-F1, ^^^err, meant to write "symptoms" there. Sorry, I'll proofread more carefully next time) > then log in), and examining the file .gnome-errors in my ho

Re: Can't log in after apt-get upgrade

2000-12-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
I had the identical systems. Logging in on a text console (alt-ctl-F1, then log in), and examining the file .gnome-errors in my home directory, I found that gnome was complaining about not being able to find a certain shared library file. (Can't remember the name--something with pixbuf in it some

Re: Can't log in after apt-get upgrade

2000-12-12 Thread Pascal Hos
If you upgraded as shown below, you still need to install the packages that have been kept back. However I experienced a similar problem and it turned out that the rep package didn't get installed. HTH, Pascal Hos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ross Boylan wrote: I just did an apt-get upgrade, my first i

Re: Can't log in - Help!

1999-06-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
Sounds like a permissions problem. If you moved your 'dden' directory while logged in as root, it is possible that it is now owned by root and as user dden you dont have access to it. Can you do an `ls -la /home` and email the result? or alternatively you could try this... 1. log in as root 2. c

Re: Can't log in - Help!

1999-06-25 Thread Brad
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, David Densmore wrote: > When I try to login to my normal user account I get this message: > > Unable to cd to "/home/dden" > > I can still log in as root, but I don't know how to fix the problem. > I used the adduser command to create a new account and couldn't > get into th