login

[johnathan]

Trouble loging in 

My PClinuxOS 2007 has been working  well for over 2 years ,  but now a login problem has developed.  It is not the end of the world as I can still use the system but would like to no why its happening.

The system boots with no error messages in verbose mode, and displays the login prompt with the choice of user or root. On choosing either of these with the mouse I cannot enter any text in box provided for the password and on pressing esc key the box is filled with characters which cannot be deleted. If try to enter the user name rather than clicking it will not allow me to type the user name.

On going to the system menu and clicking Restart X Server the login screen returns and I can log in as usual

Anyone know why

Regards John

[hal8000]

Its as if your default X configuration has changed.

Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.log for errors and /var/log/messages.

It may be worth comparing /etc/X11Xorg.conf and /etc/X11/Xorg.conf.bak and
comparing changes.

[johnathan]

Its as if your default X configuration has changed.

Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.log for errors and /var/log/messages.

It may be worth comparing /etc/X11Xorg.conf and /etc/X11/Xorg.conf.bak and
comparing changes.

Found an entry in /var/log/messages a keymap error but this did not appear every time.

But as you mentioned X11   I removed the "vga=788" from the Grub menu (this was from the installation not my choice) and it seems to work now

thanks

John