Re: yikes! locked out of own system!
Chris Howells wrote:
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> On Thursday 28 March 2002 4:48 pm, nick phillips wrote:
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>> I'm pretty sure the same login screen said "Debian user" or
>> something like that. When I try any of my passwords, they now
>> don't work! I'm not sure
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> What happens if you use CTRL+ALT+F1 and try and log in at the
> console on a spare virtual termina?
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>> fix it! Has something gone wrong with X Server or with XF86Setup?
>> Does anyone have any suggestions?
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> Maybe pam got messed up for [k|x|g]dm. It does seem unlikely though.
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Actually seems very likely. I began with Corel Linux, and this is
exactly what happened to most of us when we upgraded from 1.0 to 1.1 -
because one of the packages failed to properly depend on a pam update.
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derek
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