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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Problems with login at a vt
  • Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:21:22 -0700

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Bearcat M. Sandor wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm having a strange problem logging in. My computer starts in RL3. If i
> enter a login/pw combination correctly the first time, i'm in with no
> problems. If i enter a login/pw incorrectly and then enter it correctly a
> second time, i just get a hanging pw prompt. No key combination gets me
> out of it. I have to switch to another VT to log in and the first one just
> sits there indefinitely.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? It started about the time i updated to
> xorg-server on 20060805, but looking through my activity log, i don't see
> any spells that were cast related to shadow or any such processes.

I have never seen this issue and I am currently using xorg-modular on my
laptop and xorg (in stable-rc-0.5) on my gaming machine. Have you
checked your system log? Perhaps you have a setting to lock out a
terminal after one incorrect login attempt?

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
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