Hi Scott, I thinking emailing your local LUG (Linux User Group) or the Debian user list may be better groups to assist you with your issue. Best regards, Lloyd On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 10:07, Dr. Jones wrote: > I can't log on to my Pentium II machine which is running debian 3.0. Two > kernels are installed, with 2.4.18 and 2.4.20. > > Until a few days ago, I was able to boot up and run with 2.4.20. After my > system froze and required a cold boot, plus a painfully long run of fsck > /dev/hda1 to get it revived, now it gets to the Gnome Desktop Manager login > screen, and refuses to move forward. > > When I type in my user name, or root, gdm responds with "Authentication > Failed" and does not present the password prompt. To get out of this I hit > ctrl-alt-f2, then ctrl-alt-del. > > Last night I was rebooting, and while at the GRUB menu, I selected the > 2.4.18 kernel to see if it would boot differently. It booted up the same, > rendering the same results at the gdm dialogue, however, if I booted in > maintenance mode, after entering my root password, which it accepts, I was > able to log on, to run apt-get update from the console. > > When attempting this under 2.4.20, I could not even get an IP address, the > tulip NIC driver would not load and give me 'net access. > > I believe I have a PAM problem, as all my directories appear intact, in > /home and elsewhere. > > What can I do to resolve this, to get net access under 2.4.20 so that I can > get my linux box working as normal? > > Thanks for any help, > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
