Easier way! Re: can't login with root or user after 1.2 upgrade

["1stFlight !" <1stflight donet com>]

Yeah this goes into my oops column and will teach me not to answer a question
before I've woken up. Here's an easier way, if you can log in as any other user,
just open a terminal and type "su" then "<root's password>" and you'll become root
in that window. Then find that gdm file and rename it with the instructions below
or do the backdating, restart Gnome and you should be good to go. *sighs* Sorry
about the long drawn out method.



Darryl

"1stFlight !" wrote:

> If you can log in as any other user,  you can open a terminal (sorry) and
> "telinit 3" to get to a command line. Login as root and look for the old
> gdm.conf which I think gets renamed to gdm.config.sav  copy the current file to
> another backup  in case there are some changes you really need ("cp gdm.conf
> badgdm.conf" ) and then "mv gdm.conf.sav gdm.conf" , then "telinit 5" and you
> should be good to go, provided the gdm.conf was the problem. Oh, yeah you could
> also just ftp down an older version of gdm (but I have no idea what problems
> this might cause) and use rpm -e gdm(current packname).rpm and them rpm -ivh
> gdm(olderpackage). Keep in mind, that updates are usually done with a good
> reason so backdating might not be something you really want to do.
>
> Darryl
>
> Joss Winn wrote:
>
> > thanks for the quick reply.
> >
> > So how might I correct this with only the failsafe terminal at my disposal?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Joss (allergic to the terminal) Winn
> >
> > on 00.7.13 7:51 AM, Rob Brown-Bayliss at rob@procom.co.nz wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >> login screen.  I enter the user name or root and password and it just
> > >> returns me to the login again.  I can get somewhere with failsafe and
> > >> another level but all else fails.
> > >
> > > I have had a similar problem every time I update GDM, so I don't bother
> > > unless it's a major fix.
> > >
> > > To fix it I restore my previous gdm.conf and the other files I may have
> > > changed.  I usually make a backup of the whole gdm directory befor running
> > > the gdm update.  I think the main problem is the <prefix>/gdm/Init/Default
> > > file...
> > >
> > > This is one of my pet hates with the whole RPM system, nearly every RPM
> > > overwrites your previous config files with the new defaults, though they
> > > mostly seem to save the old config first.
> > >
> > > But it's anoying.
> > >
> > >
> >
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