not able to login default user

[lliang]

I have suse 10.1 working for a long time. Couple weeks ago, there was a power outage in my area. Then I have trouble to login the default user through gui.

The default user login was setup without entering userid/password. Now, the login screen comes up every time after rebooting since the power outage happened. I entered the userid/password, it's running for a minute or so, then the login screen comes back again to ask you to login.

I tried to boot from installation cd, and did a repair and see if there is any file corruption. It did say there was a file corruption. I used automatic option to fix the error, and it says fixed, but still not able to login as the user. The login screen still comes up and could not login. Now I am stuck and could not access my email and other stuff.

I searched, and did not find anything really helpful. Please help me on this if you have any suggestions.

Thanks

Larry

[gogalthorp]

Can you log in as root??

[daark.child]

Try logging into the command line. If that works, then it should be possible to fix the graphical login. When the login manager shows up, do CTRL-ALT-F1, login to the terminal as root and enter the command "init 3" to stop the X server. After that do CTRL-ALT-F2, login as a normal user and enter the command "startx". Post back any error messages.

[lliang]

Yes, I can login as root through gui or command line.

Also I can login as the default user through command line, but not the gui.

I tried to login as root after CTRL+ALT+F1, and ran "init 3" to stop the xserver, and it's successful. Then login as the default user after CTRL+ALT+F2, then ran "startx". I did login as the user successfully.
But when I did a shutdown -r now to reboot, the same problem still exists, and not able to login gui as the default user.
Thanks for the help. It seems I am getting step closer to resolve the issue.

Thanks again!

[lliang]

Please help me futher on this problem as how to fix it. It seems related to x server, but I really like to get over the problem.

Larry

[gogalthorp]

What GUI, KDE or gnome?

If KDE

GO to the GUI via the method you used before.

Personal Settings-System Administration-Login Manager-Convenience

Make sure that the Auto Login is checked and the correct user is selected

[lliang]

Still does not work. I went through the steps today and rebooted my pc, and still the same.

I do use KDE.

Thanks,

[gogalthorp]

Since you can log into the GUI as root it is most likely something in the KDE configuration files is broken.

rename the .kde file in your home directory

mv /home/yourusernamehere/.kde /home/yourusernamehere/kde.bak

try restaring the GUI

This should reset KDE. note you will have lost all your KDE settings but any important files can be moved form the old directory.

You might run a low level disk repair program to see if you have disk corruption or damage.

[lliang]

Removed the .kde under home/userid, restarted. No difference.
I also scanned HDD with Suse 10.1 installation CD with repair, did not find out anything. I ran DiskTest with Parted Magic from the liveCD, did not find out anything. I also did a partition test with Parted Image from the liveCD, and no errors identified.

The only issue I found out was the warning message from Parted Magic "The current member of heads per cylinder is 16, but the correct value may be 255". I did change the value from 16 to 255. Retested, and no warning anymore. Restarted, and did not make any difference.

Any further help on the issue, please!

[gogalthorp]

Try creating a new user ID and see if you can log on with that.