Add user login to /etc/shells?

[Game master pro]

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I changed the default runlevel to 4 to it boots to kdm, but i can't log in to my normal user account, only root, if i try loggin in it says something about my login script not in /etc/shells how do i log in, anyone know?

[dylunio]

Could you post the exact error message you get?

[Game master pro]

Sure, here you go

it says "Your login shell is not listed in /etc/shells"

and incase you don't believe me, i took a picture of it
(another thing i don't get with windows, a image with a .tif extension is 8.63 mb but with .tiff with 2 f's its only 200kb, exactly the same thing, weird, eh?)

http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/4581/ssa400845im.png

[dylunio]

Hmm, do you have something like the following in your /etc/shells

# /etc/shells: valid login shells
/bin/sh
/bin/bash
/bin/tcsh
/bin/csh
/bin/esh
/bin/ksh
/bin/zsh
/bin/sash

see if having that works, if it doesn't come back.

[Game master pro]

My /etc/shells looks like

/bin/bash
/bin/tcsh
/bin/csh
/bin/ash
/bin/ksh
/bin/zsh

should i replce mine with yours?

[dylunio]

My /etc/shells looks like

/bin/bash
/bin/tcsh
/bin/csh
/bin/ash
/bin/ksh
/bin/zsh

should i replce mine with yours?

It looks fine, searching using Google I came across this thread which might be of help.

[lakerdonald]

Okay, which shell are you currently trying to use?

[TomX]

Check the path to your preferred shell for the user 'gmp'.

This is listed in /etc/passwd

The line with my non-root account looks like:
tom:1000:100:Tom F,,,:/home/tom:/bin/bash

So check that your line ends with /bin/bash (assuming you want to use bash). Also check to see whether or not /bin/bash exists, and it's permissions.

To check these you'll have to mount your root partition from other distribution. I recommend the SystemRescueCD distribution. Download it, burn it, boot it, check /etc/passwd.

[Game master pro]

I edited /etc/shells to have /bin/bash at the end and take it off the beginning, it did nothing at all, it /etc/passwd there is nothing after /home/gmp indicating any shell i will post what it says when im on my computer

[valan]

it /etc/passwd there is nothing after /home/gmp indicating any shell

I believe you have just found the problem. See man page for passwd(5) for more info.