Rick Pasotto wrote:
Today I restarted X after several months and as soon as I enter a user name I get an 'authentication failed' error box so I can't log into X. This is before it asks for a password. I can login to a regular console fine. I get the same message when I select the 'configure' option from the menu. I am running testing and have installed all the curently available packages in sarge. HELP!
Try restarting gdm[ie '/etc/init.d/gdm restart' as root]. If it hasn't been restarted since you did the libc6 2.2.5 -> 2.3.1 upgrade than gdm will still have libc6 2.2.5 loaded, but will be trying to use a pam compiled against 2.3.1.