Re: locked out of postfix install

On Sat 16 Jul 2016 at 18:26:10 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: > solved see other thread Any particular thread? You have a link? You may have resolved your issue but a solution involves an explanation of what happened on your machine. No explanation - no solution. Glad you have sorted it though and

Re: locked out of postfix install

solved see other thread On 16 July 2016 at 15:17, Aaron Gray wrote: > dpkg seems to be totally broken :- > > > $ sudo apt-get install node > [sudo] password for aaronngray: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information...

Re: locked out of postfix install

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 11:46:27AM +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: > Hi, > > I have a relatively fresh install of Debian 8 > > I did a > > sudo apt-get install postfix > > The treminal then came up with a page with instructions and an > button, I then left this while I was waiting for my DNS change

Re: locked out of postfix install

dpkg seems to be totally broken :- $ sudo apt-get install node [sudo] password for aaronngray: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies:

locked out of postfix install

Hi, I have a relatively fresh install of Debian 8 I did a sudo apt-get install postfix The treminal then came up with a page with instructions and an button, I then left this while I was waiting for my DNS change to resolve which took several hours. When I went back to the terminal it was

Re: Locked out of fluxbox, or any other desktop environment too.

On 17 May 2013 19:02, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 17 mai 13, 09:50:02, Sharon Kimble wrote: On 17 May 2013 09:14, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Could you please post the output of 'ps aux' after a fresh reboot? boudiccas@London:~$ ps aux

Locked out of fluxbox, or any other desktop environment too.

Last night I stupidly did 'sudo update-menus', and shortly afterwards I had to reboot. Now I cant get into any desktop environment [fluxbox, lxde,razor,etc] and I keep getting this message showing in the fluxbox login logs ;- -- BScreen::BScreen: an error

Re: Locked out of fluxbox, or any other desktop environment too.

On Vi, 17 mai 13, 08:27:58, Sharon Kimble wrote: When I log out of my current DE before trying to get into fluxbox, I'm certain that I've totally logged out of any window managers,but its still finding some,even from a shut-down system! i.e. even when I start with a fresh setup from

Re: Locked out of fluxbox, or any other desktop environment too.

On 17 May 2013 09:14, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 17 mai 13, 08:27:58, Sharon Kimble wrote: When I log out of my current DE before trying to get into fluxbox, I'm certain that I've totally logged out of any window managers,but its still finding some,even from a

Re: Locked out of fluxbox, or any other desktop environment too.

On Friday 17 May 2013 09:50:02 Sharon Kimble wrote: 1001      6450  0.2  0.2 189624  9748 ?        Sl   09:42   0:00 /usr/lib/mate-p 1001      6453  0.0  0.2 194184 10860 ?        Sl   09:42   0:00 /usr/lib/mate-p 1001      6454  0.0  0.1 177552  6552 ?        Sl   09:42   0:00

Re: Locked out of fluxbox, or any other desktop environment too.

On 17 May 2013 10:06, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 17 May 2013 09:50:02 Sharon Kimble wrote: 1001 6450 0.2 0.2 189624 9748 ?Sl 09:42 0:00 /usr/lib/mate-p 1001 6453 0.0 0.2 194184 10860 ?Sl 09:42 0:00 /usr/lib/mate-p 1001

Re: Locked out of fluxbox, or any other desktop environment too.

On Friday 17 May 2013 10:16:45 Sharon Kimble wrote: On 17 May 2013 10:06, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 17 May 2013 09:50:02 Sharon Kimble wrote: 1001 6450 0.2 0.2 189624 9748 ?Sl 09:42 0:00 /usr/lib/mate-p 1001 6453 0.0 0.2 194184 10860 ?

Re: Locked out of fluxbox, or any other desktop environment too.

On 17 May 2013 10:22, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 17 May 2013 10:16:45 Sharon Kimble wrote: On 17 May 2013 10:06, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 17 May 2013 09:50:02 Sharon Kimble wrote: 1001 6450 0.2 0.2 189624 9748 ?Sl 09:42

Re: Locked out of fluxbox, or any other desktop environment too.

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:29:28AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: It makes no difference what DE I'm running, before trying to log into fluxbox, I still get thrown out and unable to log into fluxbox successfully. But, I can do it as my new user added today, so its something to do with the old

Re: Locked out of fluxbox, or any other desktop environment too.

On Vi, 17 mai 13, 09:50:02, Sharon Kimble wrote: On 17 May 2013 09:14, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Could you please post the output of 'ps aux' after a fresh reboot? boudiccas@London:~$ ps aux [snip] (might I suggest for the next time you run 'ps aux output.txt' and

Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 01:39 -0600, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: B.Hoffmann wrote: Being at the command line, is there a command structure to reverse what I posted in the first post? I mean to reverse ln -s /home/insert your username here/.themes /root/.themes And what

Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out

B.Hoffmann wrote: [...] On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 21:32 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Just make sure that you purge the screwed-up configurations files, i.e. run dpkg --purge gdm. (A normal uninstall will leave all configuration files in place.) Otherwise you might run into trouble again

Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 22:07 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: The package management system will still think that these files are there, so your system will be in an inconsistent state. That might cause problems if you ever reinstall gdm. (I think the installation scripts will check if the config

locked out from gdm - input field greyed out

Hi there, tonight after a bit of hacking managed to lock myself out of the system and unfortunately have no other DE/WM present on that machine. Machine was set up to prompt from standard greeter and its input field's now greyed out, can't type in user name or passwd. This happened after

Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out

Oh yes, and here's the URL that I blame: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Desktop_EyeCandy Kind Regards, B.Hoffmann Linux User #398054 -Foresight Linux- -Ubuntu- -Debian (Sarge)- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out

B.Hoffmann wrote: Hi there, Yo tonight after a bit of hacking managed to lock myself out of the system [...] Hit Control-Alt-F2. (This brings you into a text-mode VT). Log-in as root. Fix the problem. There are probably another couple-dozen ways to solve this problem. -- To

Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out

B.Hoffmann wrote: Hi there, Hi there. tonight after a bit of hacking managed to lock myself out of the system [...] Boot into runlevel 1 and undo what you did. When booting with LILO, you do this by placing a 1 on the boot command line. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out

Forwarded Message From: B.Hoffmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) sumo.wrestler.0rj82m [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:32:43 +0100 On Sun, 2006

Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out

B.Hoffmann wrote: Being at the command line, is there a command structure to reverse what I posted in the first post? I mean to reverse ln -s /home/insert your username here/.themes /root/.themes And what would it be? Ta. If /root/.themes never existed before, I imagine this: # rm

Locked out of server appliance: PAM Issue

I had my box using LDAP authentication and I tried to remove the LDAP lines from the /etc/pam.d files. I now cannot log in to my box. It is a server appliance. I have linuxconf (web) running on it. I need to edit my server's configuration files to uncomment the LDAP lines. How can i do this? All I

Re: Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently?

Hi Anthony I'm really late, I know. But this email may help for a future passwd blues ... :) On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 20:39, Anthony Campbell wrote: I can't access my laptop because neither the user nor the root passwords work. I can only think I was hacked last night. I can't access via

Re: Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently?

On 17-09-2004, at 20h 24'37, Anthony Campbell wrote about Re: Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently? Sorry for this follow-up, but I've now discovered what the original problem with the passwords was. The console keymap has somehow gone wrong and is not generating the correct UK

Re: Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently?

On 20 Sep 2004, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: On 17-09-2004, at 20h 24'37, Anthony Campbell wrote about Re: Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently? Sorry for this follow-up, but I've now discovered what the original problem with the passwords was. The console keymap has somehow

Re: Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently?

Anthony Campbell wrote: Anthony Sorry for this follow-up, but I've now discovered what the original problem with the passwords was. The console keymap has somehow gone wrong and is not generating the correct UK symbols for # ~ @ . This may have happened in today's update from Sid - I'm not

Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently?

I can't access my laptop because neither the user nor the root passwords work. I can only think I was hacked last night. I can't access via single user either. I can get into the system via knoppix. Are there any files in /etc I can delete in order to make the system accessible without a

Re: Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently?

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:39:41 +0100, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't access my laptop because neither the user nor the root passwords work. I can only think I was hacked last night. I can't access via single user either. I can get into the system via knoppix. Are there any

Re: Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently?

Anthony Campbell wrote: I can't access my laptop because neither the user nor the root passwords work. I can only think I was hacked last night. I can't access via single user either. I can get into the system via knoppix. Are there any files in /etc I can delete in order to make the system

Re: Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently?

On 17 Sep 2004, Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:39:41 +0100, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't access my laptop because neither the user nor the root passwords work. I can only think I was hacked last night. I can't access via single user either. I

Re: Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently?

Hello Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I can't access my laptop because neither the user nor the root passwords work. I can only think I was hacked last night. I can't access via single user either. I can get into the system via knoppix. Are there any files in /etc I can

Re: Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently?

On 17 Sep 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 17 Sep 2004, Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:39:41 +0100, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't access my laptop because neither the user nor the root passwords work. I can only think I was hacked last night.

Re: Locked out of system

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:42:32 PDT, Gary L. Roach writes: Well I have been known to do stupid things. This is one of them. ;) I changed fstab to mount another drive automatically. I messed up the entry. Now the system boots to management level ((none) prompt) and makes the hard drive

Re: Locked out of system

On Tuesday 27 July 2004 02:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get out of this mess. Boot up from a knoppix CD (or other such). In Knoppix, you type something ike boot knoppix single. This puts you in a non-password root command line shell. Manually mount the partition with fstab. Edit it.

Locked out of system

Well I have been known to do stupid things. This is one of them. I changed fstab to mount another drive automatically. I messed up the entry. Now the system boots to management level ((none) prompt) and makes the hard drive partitions read only. There is no text editor available to edit fstab

Re: Locked out of system

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:42:32PM -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: I changed fstab to mount another drive automatically. I messed up the entry. Now the system boots to management level ((none) prompt) and makes the hard drive partitions read only. You can remount partitions as read-write by

Re: Locked out of system

Gary L. Roach wrote: Well I have been known to do stupid things. This is one of them. I changed fstab to mount another drive automatically. I messed up the entry. Now the system boots to management level ((none) prompt) and makes the hard drive partitions read only. There is no text editor

Re: Locked out of system

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 10:42, Gary L. Roach wrote: Well I have been known to do stupid things. This is one of them. I changed fstab to mount another drive automatically. I messed up the entry. Now the system boots to management level ((none) prompt) and makes the hard drive partitions read

Re: locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)

hi ya vestor yu get the /etc/nologin file created during shutdown ... and upon reboot...or shutdown... it is NOT cleaning up after itself... if you pulled the power on it or something odd... it is not yet able to resync itself... gotta keep rebooting n-times till it works right try init 6,

locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)

hello... i am still unable to log into my system, however, i am a little wiser than before. here is what i know: -i am unable to log into my system. the system boots as usual, at the login prompt i login (either normal user or root), give my password and get a login incorrect -i am able to

Re: locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)

hi ya guessing ... - make sure your / is NOT 100% - make sure touch /foo.test.txt works ( it should be writable ) - make sure you do NOT have /etc/nologin - make sure df shows all your partitions - or ... you might have a corrupted libcrypt and/or libpams since single user login

Re: locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)

hi! i am doing this in single user mode obviously... - make sure your / is NOT 100% uhm...what do you mean? it's not 100% full if that is what you meant =) - make sure touch /foo.test.txt works ( it should be writable ) works perfectly fine - make sure you do NOT have /etc/nologin

Re: locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)

okay...i found something. i think alvin was right when he pointed out that it could be because of /etc/nologin (but i cannot log in as root either)... the thing is, the file is there, and i already deleted it but it always comes back. there also is a /etc/nologin.boot and a script

Re: [users] Re: locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)

also sprach vester (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 06:44:12PM +0200): okay...i found something. i think alvin was right when he pointed out that it could be because of /etc/nologin (but i cannot log in as root either)... the thing is, the file is there, and i already deleted it but it always comes back.

[ ? ] Locked out after recent dselect upgrade

Yesterday I did what has become a pretty standard dselect update and install. But something went very wrong with yesterday's upgrade. I can no longer log into my workstation as root, myself or any other user remotely or at the local console. In fact, at the local console the login fails without

Re: [ ? ] Locked out after recent dselect upgrade

Mikol Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I did what has become a pretty standard dselect update and install. But something went very wrong with yesterday's upgrade. I can no longer log into my workstation as root, myself or any other user remotely or at the local console. In fact, at the

Re: [ ? ] Locked out after recent dselect upgrade

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Mikol Graves wrote: Yesterday I did what has become a pretty standard dselect update and install. But something went very wrong with yesterday's upgrade. I can no longer log into my workstation as root, myself or any other user remotely or at the local console. In fact,

Re: Locked out

Does not single user mode inquires for root password? One alternative in case one forgets the root password is to use the rescue disk, go to the 2nd VT, mount / and clear the root password from /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow as appropriate. Isn't there is a possibility to boot into sh? Yes, if

Locked out

MY system will not accept my password. Can I enter the system with a ram disk system to view the password file. Wheere is the password file? I hav slink installed on a Linux Dos stack.

Re: Locked out

On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 01:58:36AM -0400, Woodrow Lovett wrote: MY system will not accept my password. Can I enter the system with a ram disk system to view the password file. Wheere is the password file? I hav slink installed on a Linux Dos stack. Boot the system single user mode and clear

Re: Locked out

--AH+kv8CCoFf6qPuz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 01:58:36AM -0400, Woodrow Lovett wrote: MY system will not accept my password. Can I enter the system with a ram disk system to

Re: Locked out

On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 02:11:04AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: Does not single user mode inquires for root password? One alternative in case one forgets the root password is to use the rescue disk, go to the 2nd VT, mount / and clear the root password from /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow as

Potato - locked out of X

I have just upgraded to potato and I can't get into X as a normal user, only root works. When I type startx (as a normal user) I get a message saying I don't have privileges to do it. Thanks. Get Your Private, Free

Re: Potato - locked out of X

Daniel Burrows wrote: I have just upgraded to potato and I can't get into X as a normal user, only root works. When I type startx (as a normal user) I get a message saying I don't have privileges to do it. Thanks. Check out /etc/X11/Xserver file. The first line should be path to your X

HELP! locked out of X - problem solved THANKS!

I solved my locked out of X problem by rebooting the machine while holding down the shift key, then booting up in single user mode. Then removing the S99XDM file or whatever it is called. Thanks for all your help everyone, you are incredible! -=- Daniel Robbins School of Medicine Computer

Re: HELP! locked out of X - problem solved THANKS!

I solved my locked out of X problem by rebooting the machine while holding down the shift key, then booting up in single user mode. Then removing the S99XDM file or whatever it is called. Thanks for all your help everyone, you are incredible! But isn't that the wrong solution? Isn't

Re: HELP! locked out of X - problem solved THANKS!

Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mind you, I can't see anywhere in /etc/init.d/* where it only starts xdm based on the runlevel, nor in the inittab. I think the information you want may be in /etc/init.d/README -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word