Re: Re: Password messed up
So review your "/var/log/syslog", "/var/log/auth.log" and "~/.xession-
errors", there should be something in there saying why the login fails :-?
What desktop are you using (GNOME, KDE...)?
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
(Sorry for the delay, but unavoidable)
I am using KDE4 desktop.
Reviewing the three files suggested above...
I have included what I feel might be the significant areas of interest
(the "tails") for these 3 files below. They were observed after the
computer log in GUI screen was waiting for several minutes. An attempt
to log in the "dummy" user was made once. Incidentally, when "login"
button is clicked, the screen goes blank for a few seconds and then the
GUI log in screen returns awaiting password again. Following this one
attempt, a CLI/terminal/tty login was performed for root.
/var/log/syslog (partial):
May 6 14:24:36 localhost kdm: :0[2262]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session:
Unable to open session: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127
May 6 14:24:36 localhost kdm: :0[2262]: Client start failed
May 6 14:24:36 localhost kdm: :0[2262]: Cannot close ConsoleKit
session: Unable to close session: no session open
May 6 14:24:37 localhost acpid: client 2155[0:0] has disconnected
May 6 14:24:37 localhost acpid: client 2155[0:0] has disconnected
May 6 14:24:37 localhost acpid: client connected from 2155[0:0]
May 6 14:24:37 localhost acpid: 1 client rule loaded
May 6 14:24:37 localhost acpid: client connected from 2155[0:0]
May 6 14:24:37 localhost acpid: 1 client rule loaded
May 6 14:24:38 localhost kdm_greet[2653]: Cannot load
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory
May 6 14:24:42 localhost acpid: client 2155[0:0] has disconnected
May 6 14:24:43 localhost acpid: client 2155[0:0] has disconnected
/var/log/auth.log (partial):
May 6 14:24:48 localhost login[2189]: pam_unix(login:session): session
opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0)
May 6 14:24:48 localhost login[2732]: ROOT LOGIN on '/dev/tty6'
/home/don/.xsession-errors (partial):
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_konsole.so
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kbuildsycoca4.so
<unknown program name>(2366)/ KStartupInfo::createNewStartupId:
creating: "kali;1272102781;720496;2366_TIME0" : "unnamed app"
kbuildsycoca4 running...
findServiceByDesktopPath: systemsettings not found
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kbuildsycoca4.so
<unknown program name>(2366)/ KStartupInfo::createNewStartupId:
creating: "kali;1272102801;670523;2366_TIME0" : "unnamed app"
kbuildsycoca4 running...
findServiceByDesktopPath: systemsettings not found
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kbuildsycoca4.so
<unknown program name>(2366)/ KStartupInfo::createNewStartupId:
creating: "kali;1272102840;39228;2366_TIME0" : "unnamed app"
kbuildsycoca4 running...
findServiceByDesktopPath: systemsettings not found
nepomukserver: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit4: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit4: sending SIGHUP to children.
kded4: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit4: sending SIGTERM to children.
kdeinit4: Exit.
klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2377, errno = 32
kglobalaccel: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit4: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit4: sending SIGHUP to children.
kdeinit4: sending SIGTERM to children.
kdeinit4: Exit.
So, my rather uneducated guess is that the problem is with "kdeinit4"
Again, hints, suggestions welcome. If more info is needed, let me know.
Regards and thanks,
Don
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