Re: Debian 2.2 on a Quadra 700
Jeff & Erika Sparks wrote:
> After taking most of the night to install the packages, I've finally got
> 'potato' booting! :-) However, now it is taking me directly into the GUI
> login & when I enter my login & password (as root or as the user acct I
> created during configuration) it leaves the login screen for about 5 seconds
> then pops right back to asking me to log in again! It isn't a question of
> the wrong username or password because if I do that on purpose it gives me
> the "Login Incorrect" message below the "login:" and "Password:" fields then
> resets to asking for me re-enter them. It just clears the screen as if it's
> accepted the password, etc. and is going to bring up the desktop, then goes
> back to square one. I even tried logging in at the command line as it was
> starting up (it asks for login and you have about 6 sec before it goes into
> GUI mode) but the GUI (GNOME) still wants a username & password. Any
> thoughts? Or at least can someone tell if there is a command line argument
> that I can give it when it boots (in the "Penguin Booter" prefs) to *not* go
> into the GUI? Thanks!
On the Mac try the Ctrl-Apple-F1 key combination to get a console
login. From there you can kill xdm. Next use startx to attempt to
start X and you'll hopefully be able to see what the problem is from the
screen or log output.
Ray Knight
audilvr@speakeasy.org
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