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Re: help! just upgraded and now can't login!



On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:17:15PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:02:08PM +0800, Tim&Pep wrote:
> :Hi,
> :
> :I'm a Debian newbie. I have just used apt-get to upgrade my system and
> :now I can't seem to log in at all under X. I can login on one of the
> :other virtual terminals (or whatever you call that when you press
> :ctrl-alt F6). What have I done? Can I fix it? Thanks.

    I seem to recall having this happen. I rebooted and the problem went away.
Scary solution, since it seems right out of the windoze world, but it worked.
I never did find out what caused it.

    Mike

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