Login manager

[abhishek456]

I am using suse 10.2 with xp. Suddenly my display manager had changed to some old styled manager which shows suse logo. There are no options to change it. It is not even responding to any of the keys. I think it's not gdm,kdm,xdm.

I installed kdm to see if something changes. I rebooted system after this.

Now kdm appeared but i could not login in even after typing correct login and password. The screen just goes blank and return to login.

I changed display manager to gdm in etc/sysconfig/displaymanager using windows now the same unknown login manager appears and i could not login

Even login manger is set to login automatically it's not doing it

I am posting my displaymanager file

[abhishek456]

anybody there to help me

[rong]

Do you have any idea what you might have done before you had this problem like installing a new app or ...? Are you using KDE or GNOME? Do you get errors when running startx from the command line?

Try a repair. Boot up your install disk and locate the repair option and run it. It's been awhile since I've done that so I don't recall exactly where it is but it is there.

[dth1]

It looks like it is coming up as xdm - although I see that you use gnome. Try changing the Display Manager to KDE to see if that works.

[abhishek456]

It looks like it is coming up as xdm - although I see that you use gnome. Try changing the Display Manager to KDE to see if that works.

i changed the login manager to kde by editing etc/sysconfig/displaymanager mounting it on windows and still it does not work.

As soon i give user and pass it goes blank for a while and returns to login again.

I booted in failsafe, gave login and pass in command mode. I could login in and terminal had printed that i had logged in, then i switched to 'init 5' then it again returns to login manager

[dth1]

thanks for posting back - it sounds serious.

what about trying the repair option - boot from the installation cd/dvd (as if you are installing suse) / go through the screens until it asks if you want to install suse and select the 'other' option. It then gives you an option to run a repair job and checks the main system files

[abhishek456]

I had gone for repair job by booting from dvd.

When checking for basic software needed it reported that defaultkernel, PAM, smtp_deamon are missing. So i had gone for installing those. When i did the same test again it reported that PAM,smtp_deamon are missing. So i now reinstalled all packages of PAM but still shows that PAM is missing

[abhishek456]

no body to solve my problem ?

[kahoona]

If you can mount your linux drive in Windows, you could back it up and reinstall 10.2. That would probably fix your problem. It would just be a big time investment.

[gogalthorp]

You could reinstall but not reformat the home partition just the root. This will only work if you have a seperate home partition!