cornel panceac writes:
janina, maybe disabling selinux will help? have you checked
/etc/{passwd,shadow} ?
what if you create a new user?
..
selinux was already disabled--so it wasn't selinux. But, creating a new
user named 'NEW' did the trick. So, the emergency is covered as NEW goes
to prepare her demo! <grin> Thanks.
Janina
On 9/24/06, Janina Sajka <janina(a)rednote.net> wrote:
>oldman writes:
>> Janina Sajka wrote:
>> > I ran a 'yum upgrade' on my test 3 portable Thursday night. Since
then
>> > I've been unable to log onto the desktop. Console logins have not been
>> > affected. I see the following error in /var/log/secure:
>> >
>> > Sep 24 07:04:13 sonata gdm[6597]: pam_unix(gdm:auth): authentication
>> > failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost=
>> > Sep 24 07:04:13 sonata gdm[6597]: pam_succeed_if(gdm:auth): error
>> > retrieving information about user JANINA
>> >
>> > Well, the user is 'janina,' and not 'JANINA,' of course.
... ...
>> >
>> Janina:
>>
>> William Murray also reported problems with the latest authconfig
>> packages. He recommends reverting to authconfig 5.3.7-1.
>
>Well, I can only find authconfig-5.3.6, but downversioning to that
>doesn't fix the problem. I get the same error.
>
>
>>
>> His description of his problem doesn't sound exactly like yours, but it
>> might be a good first step. Here is his report:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>> I just updated my FC6T3 box, and it no longer starts gdm.
>> Last error in /var/log/messages:
>> heplnw8 gdm[2164]: no suitable security token driver could be found
>>
>> This is with new authconfig 5.3.8-1
>> If I go back to 5.3.7-1 all is OK again...
>> Bill
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Scott
>>
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