>
Since you just installed it, it would be wise to try again and to ask for "Check
for Bad Blocks". The age of your computer and hard disk suggests that this is a
possibility for the sort of error you have. The authentication process is
corrupted and is respawning because it is finding itself corrupt and committing
suicide, as every properly written daemon does.
Civileme
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Grigorof [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 12:41 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] "Login incorrect" without a password prompt....
>
> I have installed a fresh Mandrake 6.0 on a Pentium 100, 64 MB RAM, 1 GB IDE,
> AHA1520 SCSI Controller, S3 video chipset, Sound Blaster and Compaq
> Netelligent network card.
> The installation goes fine , but when the installation finishes, and I
> reboot, I get to the login screen and then for any login name that I enter I
> get the response "Login incorrect". The screen simply refreshes, and I'm
> back to the login prompt. I've tried "root" as well as the username that I
> created during setup. I don't even get a password prompt. The refresh is
> so fast you can barely see the "login incorrect" message before is
> disappears. If I try this too many times (about 10), I get a message
> saying:
>
> "INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes"
>
> Any help is appreciated!
