[SOLVED] No possibility to log in to the console during boot

[Hoobert]

Hello,
I am using openSuSE 10.3 and I am facing a strange problem that keeps driving me crazy. After installing SuSE on HDD, where I also had Windows, I decided to get rid of Microsoft's OS. But after few operations of moving/resizing partitions with Paragon's software, an error in GRUB occured. I used the update option from SuSE Installation Disc to fix it, but it caused some errors about file-system being read-only, and didn't want to install GRUB. Finally, I somehow fixed it.
It seemed that everything was ok, as I am using init 5. I mean, KDE starts with no problems and I can use the console by selecting it from the menu. But I can't log in to a console, when I am booting in init 3, or when I use "Alt+Ctrl+F1" (or "F2" and so on) in KDE. After writing username and pressing "Enter", I get the line to enter username once again. It doesn't matter, whether I try to log in as a root or as a normal user. It always shows the same line, and I have now idea, what may be wrong?
I am willing to attach you the config files that may be useful, just let me know, which one's are needed.

[dxqcanada]

Hmm, I am assuming that you can log in from a KDE terminal session using the root user ??

Check the /etc/securetty file.

[dressed_in_black]

Can you attach the grub config file which is located /boot/grub/menu.lst
It would possibly help us to determain why this is happening.

[Hoobert]

dxqcanada:
Yes, I am able to log in as a root to a terminal while using KDE.

The file securetty looks fine for me:

# 
# This file contains the device names of tty lines (one per line,
# without leading /dev/) on which root is allowed to login.
#
tty1
tty2
tty3
tty4
tty5
tty6
# for devfs:
vc/1
vc/2
vc/3
vc/4
vc/5
vc/6

And here is the requested menu.lst:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on pią mar 14 13:50:04 CET 2008
default 0
timeout 1
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message
##YaST - activate
hiddenmenu

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 10.3
    root (hd0,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_TOSHIBA_MK1237G_87MQT45PT-part6 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent  showopts
    initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title openSUSE 10.3 - failsafe
    root (hd0,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-31-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_TOSHIBA_MK1237G_87MQT45PT-part6 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume edd=off 3
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.5-31-default

BTW. I am not sure, but is it OK, that I don't have the /bin/login file?

[Hoobert]

Solved
While I was installing some stuff from Factory repository, it installed a package responsible for passwords. But it omitted the package named "login", which contains the file /bin/login, that was missing.