Re: Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user
I ran potato for a long time without any problems, but I built a new
computer recently so I reinstalled everything. Then the problem arised.
When I couldn't fix it, I just reinstalled again--from scratch, a nice,
clean hard drive. Everything was fine with my 2.1 install, but when I
upgraded to potato, it broke. I did apt-get update and apt-get
dist-upgrade. I had one problem with the samba package and apt died. I
couldn't run apt again (something about can't handle the media swap) but I
ran dselect and went to install/configure packages (I'm not sure on exactly
what it's called, but its one of the options on the dselect main screen) and
dselect continued where apt broke. After that, apt would work normally but
when I checked to see if the problem showed up again, I found that it was.
I can't figure out what in the world it could be.
> Exactly how did you reinstall? Did you recreate everything, or are you
> trying to reuse parts of a previous installation (e.g. /home)? Many
> people, including me, have upgraded from Slink to Potato without such a
> problem. You're not trying to use passwd and group files or /home
> directories left over from a previous distribution are you?
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> Eric G. Miller
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