Re: can't login on console

[Carsten Ehbrecht <uly@kaffeeschluerfer.com>]

Hello Alexis,

thanks for your answer and sorry for the delay.

I checked the log files and i found the following failure message in
auth.log when loggin in to a console:

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Aug 14 18:05:58 ada login[1192]: (pam_unix) authentication failure;
logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=tty1 ruser= rhost=  user=myuser
Aug 14 18:06:00 ada login[1192]: FAILED LOGIN (1) on `tty1' FOR
`myuser', Authentication failure

--- snip

I changed the user name;-) 

Can you guess what the failure caused?

Cheers
Carsten

In article <2qTpA-6HN-5@gated-at.bofh.it>, Alexis Huxley wrote:
>> after i upgraded a few weeks ago some packages on testing, i cant login
>> anymore to the text-console (tty). The graphical login is still working.
> 
> "cant login"? Are you getting a error message? If you give more detail
> maybe we can help more.
> 
> Did you check the various log files? Run 'sleep 60; date', when you
> see the time displayed, try to log in on console, then do an 'ls -lrt'
> in /var/log and examine the bottom end of all files with timestamps
> newer than the 'date' command showed. Any clues there? (The point of
> the 'sleep 60' is to make it as easy as possible to isolate the log
> entries caused by the login attempt from all the other junk that gets
> written to the logs.)
> 
> Alexis
> 
>