Subject: Re: RE Login Problem
From: Jim (jwadell@gci.net)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2003 - 19:46:38 AKDT
Not sure...
What has me is the last two lines of the log (21:40:10) where it says it
is starting a session for root after rejecting authentication. Have you
tried getting into another virtual terminal (control alt F1 to get away
from X, then log in on a character terminal? If you get in, then the
problem is gnome/X. Not too much help, but..
P.S. Might want to bring the box in to Friday session at Muldoon Mall
and get better brains than mine on the problem.
J
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 23:58, Lee Ross wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 08:12:24 -0800, Jim <jwadell@gci.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Lee
> >
> > Look in /var/log/messages after you have tried the sequence of events
> > that fails. I suspect that you have having trouble with pam pluggable
> > authentication module) , which will show up as messages at the end of
> > hte log with a facility of pam or pam_unix. If there is something there,
> > post a snip and maybe the collective wisdom can figure it out.
> >
> > Jim
> >
>
> Jim,
>
> Ok, here's that information from /var/log/messages.
>
> Jun 24 21:20:07 7-205-237-24 su(pam_unix)[1651]: session opened for user
> root by (uid=500)
> Jun 24 21:38:42 7-205-237-24 su(pam_unix)[1651]: session closed for user
> root
> Jun 24 21:39:49 7-205-237-24 gdm(pam_unix)[1079]: session closed for user
> leeross
> Jun 24 21:39:59 7-205-237-24 gdm(pam_unix)[1079]: authentication failure;
> logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser=gdm rhost=localhost user=root
> Jun 24 21:40:01 7-205-237-24 gdm-binary[1079]: Couldn't authenticate user
> Jun 24 21:40:10 7-205-237-24 gdm(pam_unix)[1079]: session opened for user
> root by (uid=0)
> Jun 24 21:40:10 7-205-237-24 gconfd (root-1774): starting (version 1.2.1),
> pid 1774 user 'root'
>
> I was in Gnome at the start of this session. In the first line I logged
> into root through the Gnome Terminal.....then I logged out.
>
> Line 3.... in Gnome, I logged out of user leeross and attempted to log in
> as root in Gnome....that's when it fails to authenticate and locks up the
> program tighter than a drum. I have to shut the power off and reboot. When
> I do reboot and get to the Gnome login screen I am then able to log in as
> root with no problem.
>
> Hope this is enough info and someone can help with the authenticaton part.
>
> Thanks,
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