[K12OSN] Help!

rmcdaniel at indata.us rmcdaniel at indata.us
Fri Sep 30 19:33:54 UTC 2005


You can also use the ever so usefull  Knoppix CD to boot and then make
the changes.  This works great. If you haven't used this before, it has
many good uses, like recovering data from a laptop with a crashed hard
drive.  


Ronald R. McDaniel
Conecuh County Schools
(251) 578-7073 x26
(251) 230-0658 cell
rmcdaniel at indata.us


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Help!
> From: NONE NONE <gKw-X at shaw.ca>
> Date: Fri, September 30, 2005 1:58 pm
> To: Peter Hartmann <ascensiontech at gmail.com>, "Support list for
> opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
> 
> I havn't heard of that. I'll look it up, thanks. I found out how to do the text login so I'm going to try undoing things from there. I was able to log in that way so it must be some error while loading the window manager...
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter Hartmann <ascensiontech at gmail.com>
> Date: Friday, September 30, 2005 11:56 am
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Help!
> 
> > Can't you boot from cd using linux rescue and manually undo the
> > changes  you just made?
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> > On 9/30/05, NONE NONE <gKw-X at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > > Help!! I was making some changes to the server and shut it down 
> > for a bit, now I started it up again and I can't log in! Not on 
> > root or anything. And it doesn't even do that "pause" as though 
> > the password was wrong... it just beeps and nothing happens! What 
> > did I do?? I finally have all day to work on this thing and 
> > magically I can't log in.
> > >
> > > The changes I made just before restarting were the "localmedia" 
> > bit to get floppies working, restricting the login menu to only 
> > KDE, and making some changes for the sound driver to ltsp.conf. I 
> > also ran a test script to create some accounts, but then I deleted 
> > them.>
> > > Any ideas? What can I do to fix it, or even just get back in?
> > >
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