Can't Log-in as Normal user

[STEVE555]

Hi to all,
I've recently done a fresh Install of Kubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 1but I have an annoying problem.
Everything seemed to be ok,(I also installed the latest updates at the time)but when I rebooted and selected my Linux partition,I get as far as the login-manager.I typed in my username&password,I thought it was going to carry on to the KDE desktop,but it reverts back to the login manager again.After a few attempts,I switched to console mode,as soon as I did the same thing again,I got a long line of:

-bash: /dev/null: -Permission Denied

I did a bit of searching with Google,and followed the advice from some of the posts I found.

I booted into recovery mode,at the root prompt,I issued the command: sudo chmod 666 /dev/null and then: startx.I was glad that I managed to get to the desktop.But when I rebooted as usr,the same thing was happening again! >

So following the advice from another post, I removed dev/null and then re-created it agian with the same permissions.But I am still getting the same problem!!

I hope somebody can help me with this one.

Regards,
STEVE555

[integr8e]

Re: Can't Log-in as Normal user

Although you've already tried this or similar, try it again:

According to this thread, delete /dev/null (as root) with the command

rm /dev/null

and recreate it (as root) with the command

mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3

Once you've done that, check it's permissions with

ls -l /dev/null

It should look like

crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2007-11-30 02:17 /dev/null

and not

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 3 2007-11-30 02:17 /dev/null

[STEVE555]

Re: Can't Log-in as Normal user

Hi Interhr8e,
Here's what I did.
I booted into Recovery Mode,when the root prompt appeared,I issued the command:

ls -l /dev/null

and it came up with:

crw-rw---- 1 root root 1, 3

I then used:

rm /dev/null

to delete the file,and then isseued the command:

mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3

to re-create it again.

I checked it's permissions with:

mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3

and it did compe up with the correct permissions.

So I issued

init 6

to reboot,at the the Grub Menu,I then selected user mode again and waited for the KDM Greeter to show up.

When it did,I typed in my password in again,but the same thing was happening again!!!

I have attached my auth.txt to see if there are any problems.

Regards,
STEVE555

[STEVE555]

[solved]Re: Can't Log-in as Normal user

Hi to everyone,
After some thought,I decided to another fresh install of Kubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 1(as I didn't have much software on that side of my hardrive).
As again,I installed the latest updates(From 00008/12/2007) and I have rebooted a few times since,so far so good,I can log in into normal user mode.

I like to thank you all for your help.

Regards,
STEVE555

[integr8e]

Re: Can't Log-in as Normal user

No problem; I've learned that if something really doesn't want to work as it should, the solution is quite often just to reinstall. Good stuff

[disturbedite]

Re: Can't Log-in as Normal user

i've had the same problem after the recent (3.97) kde4 updates. i try to login and it should go to the loading screen but it dumps me back to the login manager. i didn't know what the problem was, but i'm thinking its likely the same as this, so perhaps i'll completely (purge) uninstall kde4 & reinstall to see if that "fixes" it.