Re: GDM 'authentication failed'
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 01:31:46AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote:
> 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.
Thank you. That fixed it.
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welfare state, holding need as the criterion of rewards, logic forced
them, step by step, to champion the interests of the less & less
productive... until they reached the ultimate dead end of turning from
the role of champions of 'honest toil' to the role of champions of
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