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Post subject: login fails on new 2008-02 install
 Posted: Jul 06, 2008 - 11:17 PM
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Hi all,
I have a fresh install of 2008-02 onto my 2nd drive that boots ok but my login fails. My user name shows ok and I am positive my password is entered exactly the same as it was at installation. Any ideas?. Thanks, cowonjolt |
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Post subject: RE: login fails on new 2008-02 install
Posted: Jul 07, 2008 - 12:07 PM
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| First, check if your CD/DVD has been burnt correctly by booting it with the md5sum option. Check your keyboard layouts (did you choose your language on the LiveCD, which is your native language?). If you have root access, you can change a user's password with passwd <user_name>. |
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Posted: Jul 07, 2008 - 01:14 PM
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Did you change the keyboard layout after installation? Maybe the keystrokes are not generating the characters that you think they are.  |
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Post subject: Re: login fails on new 2008-02 install
Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 07:19 AM
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cowonjolt wrote:
Hi all,
I have a fresh install of 2008-02 onto my 2nd drive that boots ok but my login fails. My user name shows ok and I am positive my password is entered exactly the same as it was at installation. Any ideas?. Thanks, cowonjolt
I met the same problem and solved it this way:
first switch to a tty1 pressing <ctrl+alt+F1>, log in as root (note that I have no trouble with my root password, thus I guess it's really a bug instead of concerning keyboard layout.), then issue the command `passwd <my_username>' to change the password of my username, after that switch back to kdm pressing <ctrl>+<alt>+F7 and log in with my new password successfully. Hope it helps. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: login fails on new 2008-02 install
Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 07:47 AM
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| make sure not to use blanks or other weird characters in your user name |
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Post subject: Re: RE: Re: login fails on new 2008-02 install
Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 08:48 AM
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severin wrote:
make sure not to use blanks or other weird characters in your user name
sure the user name is chosen following the usual covention, without any whitespaces or other weird chars. |
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