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by **Paul Gronk** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Linux users,

Running RedHat 6.1. Until recently the system has been running fine. Came
back after the weekend and there was a "forced" reboot, I think a power
fluctuation at the office. Nothing serious, just seems like the two
machines (one Win98 one Linux) rebooted.

The Linux box, however, has developed a very serious anomaly. The login
screen does not work anymore. What I mean is this: at the GUI login screen,
I can enter text in the "username" line, but the "password" line does not
work. No asterisks, no text, nada. Obviously, in this condition I am
unable to sign in.

Now I AM able to hit CTRL-ALT-F1-F6 and sign in at the command console,
either as the user or as root.

Has anyone encountered this? Any solutions?

Thanks!

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Paul Gronke http://www.duke.edu/~gronke
Dept of Political Science (919)-660-4300
Duke University (919)-660-4330 (fax)
Durham, NC 27708

by **Hal Burgi** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

>Running RedHat 6.1. Until recently the system has been running fine.
>Came back after the weekend and there was a "forced" reboot, I think a
>power fluctuation at the office. Nothing serious, just seems like the
>two machines (one Win98 one Linux) rebooted.

>The Linux box, however, has developed a very serious anomaly. The login
>screen does not work anymore. What I mean is this: at the GUI login
>screen, I can enter text in the "username" line, but the "password"
>line does not work. No asterisks, no text, nada. Obviously, in this
>condition I am unable to sign in.

>Now I AM able to hit CTRL-ALT-F1-F6 and sign in at the command console,
>either as the user or as root.

>Has anyone encountered this? Any solutions?

Not really, but what if anything are in the logs? You should have some
kind of X log in /var/log/, maybe xdm-errors or some such.

You could also run 'rpm -Va' to see if anything related looks screwy.

--
Hal B

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Linux helps those who help themselves

by **Paul Gronk** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Nothing particular jumps out. All the log read normal. How can I set up so
that I boot into KDE rather than GNOME? Perhaps that is the problem.

> >Running RedHat 6.1. Until recently the system has been running fine.
> >Came back after the weekend and there was a "forced" reboot, I think a
> >power fluctuation at the office. Nothing serious, just seems like the
> >two machines (one Win98 one Linux) rebooted.

> >The Linux box, however, has developed a very serious anomaly. The login
> >screen does not work anymore. What I mean is this: at the GUI login
> >screen, I can enter text in the "username" line, but the "password"
> >line does not work. No asterisks, no text, nada. Obviously, in this
> >condition I am unable to sign in.

> >Now I AM able to hit CTRL-ALT-F1-F6 and sign in at the command console,
> >either as the user or as root.

> >Has anyone encountered this? Any solutions?

> Not really, but what if anything are in the logs? You should have some
> kind of X log in /var/log/, maybe xdm-errors or some such.

> You could also run 'rpm -Va' to see if anything related looks screwy.

> --
> Hal B

> --
> Linux helps those who help themselves

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