From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 19:04:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06B59106564A for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:04:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC468FC1C for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:04:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from [85.173.16.59] (helo=moosi) by services.ipt.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1LPLbE-0003Pe-Ib; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:45:20 +0300 To: "Roy Stuivenberg" References: <47622685@ipt.ru> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:44:47 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Roy Stuivenberg's message of "Tue\, 20 Jan 2009 14\:43\:09 +0000") Message-ID: <15456672@ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: unable to logon after updating ports collection - Freebsd 7.1 stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:04:02 -0000 "Roy Stuivenberg" writes: > It didn't work. Sure, you didn't give enough information. > My problem has something to do with gnome2 I guess. There is a gnome@ maillist which may be help, CCing it. Right now there is a discussion about absence of gdm at the last gnome version. May be that is the problem. > You see, I can logon, except in graphical user mode. > This happend after complete update (gnome2 included) > I get a different logon prompt, and then I already know I won't be able to > logon. > Only this time I was hoping an upgrade of all the ports would help me .. and > it didn't. > I really hope I will find or get an answer to this problem. > Thank you, > Regards, > Roy. > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Boris Samorodov wrote: > >> "Roy Stuivenberg" writes: >> >> > After I completed my Freebsd 7.1 stable, and updated all the ports, I got >> > prompted with another logonscreen. >> > Whatever I try, I can't login with my useraccount and even not logon as >> > root. >> > This happened severall times now, the only way was to reinstall >> everything, >> > and I was hoping to resolve this by completly finish upgrading the ports. >> > And .. again the same problem. >> > I'm really hoping to get some answers that will solve this problem, maybe >> > someone had to deal with this issue before ?? >> > I will not give up, because Freebsd stole my heart. >> >> The problem has nothing to do with ports. To restore your root/user logins: >> . boot into single user mode; >> . set a new root password; >> . set a new user password; >> . boot into multiuser mode; >> . login and have fun. WBR -- bsam