cant login

[Dean Mumby]

Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007, Dean Mumby wrote:
>
>   
>>> If the ip address of the server changed at reboot this could be your
>>> problem:
>>>
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuFAQ#head-ede48e400aac1426ab5faf2b8bb1a126d8056327
>>>       
>
>   
>> tried that already even though there was no change in ip address
>>     
>
> You might get some clues doing this:
>
> Try the login again and look at:
>
> 1. The file .xsession-errors in that user's home directory.  There's likely
>    to be some warnings normally anyway, but look for something terminal.
>   
thanks , man you are a life saver. Even though the xterminator package 
was removed it left a file
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/10-xterminator and that was causing the problem , 
damn and now I have lost all my lts.conf customisations  but atleast I 
have a system I can login to.

regards
Dean



> 2. Set the password on the thin clients, login to the console of the thin
>    client and look in the thin client logs in /var/log/, particularly
>    ldm.log
> 	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuFAQ#head-285f03d2d3ed2f29847c7793dbdb8f1488814c1b
>
> 3. Look on the server at /var/log/auth.log where you should be able to
>    check the user authenticated correctly.
>
> Gavin
>
>
>