Upgrade issue concerning Kde4 and log-in(Solved)

lilsirecho · 2008-08-28 01:17:45

I have archlinux in a 80GB hdd which is 2.6.25-ARCH.

I decided to backup this drive with two other drives, one is Maxtor 100GB and the other Maxtor 120GB.

I used the dd program to perform a full transfer of the archlinux progs on the 80GB HDD to the 120GB Maxtor.

.....dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda............

This was successful and the 120GB Maxtor was booted correctly following the transfer.

I then used the dd program to transfer the 120GB archlinux HDD contents into the 100GB Maxtor HDD.

.....dd if=/dev/hda of=/devsda..................... (the same dd process)

The process proceeded at 17MB/sec and stopped at 100GB due to the lesser size of the Maxtor 100GB HDD.

This drive was booted(the 100GB drive) correctly.

I then installed pacman with ..............pacman -Sy pacman.

This installed the latest pacman into the 100GB Maxtor HDD.

I then called ...............pacman _Syu.......... to upgrade to latest system progs.

The size of the download was very large.....877MB and it took 4 hours to download. Since I have lilo installed, I had to run /sbin/lilo -v. It complained about device-mapper but seemed to perform the upgrade since the drive booted into the log-in "gate" with "root" as the user and a slot for a passwd. My root passwd was not accepted and a message appeared stating "log-in as root is not allowed".

I have logged in as root for five long years!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please tell me how to change the log-in to allow root log-in so I can find out what else doesn't work..................

Last edited by lilsirecho (2008-08-31 23:24:20)

lilsirecho · 2008-08-28 16:07:38

What display is normal for the log-in in 2.6.26-ARCH?

Is it in black and white?

Why cannot a user log-in as root?

Can I change the log-in to permit root?

Is the log-in an archlinux log-in or is it kde4?

TheSaint · 2008-08-28 16:37:19

lilsirecho wrote:

The process proceeded at 17MB/sec and stopped at 100GB due to the lesser size of the Maxtor 100GB HDD.

You should make a check to your partition table, there should be something wrong on your HD.
Even your first partition might be same as the older hard disk, the copy didn't fix the differences in sizes of your partitions into the new hard disk.

The rest of the issue I can't guess other problems.

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lilsirecho · 2008-08-28 17:24:13

The 100GB drive booted into archlinux just fine and had the same sizes for the partitions.

However, as as happened before with the upgrade, performing ...pacman -Syu....installed 877MB of packages including the new kernel and kde4 after which I can no longer log-in as root. This is the second attempt to upgrade to kernel 2.6.26-ARCH and each has resulted in this failure to log-in with root. The first attempt was with the same HDD but loaded from an 80GB drive with the dd process. Both responded identically.

What can I do to get root log-in?

EDIT: I have an older boot option for "beyond" kernel. It is also hung-up on the root log-in now!!!!
EDIT: Just like windows!!!!

Last edited by lilsirecho (2008-08-28 17:50:27)

lilsirecho · 2008-08-28 19:53:36

Upgraded via CLI to latest kernel..3-1 and still cannot log-in as root.

How is it that this has happened after 5 years of root log-in? This acts just like windows!!!!

lilsirecho · 2008-08-29 15:26:38

Can the lack of the modules package as noted in the following post cause my lack of root log-in?

post: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=54275

lilsirecho · 2008-08-30 16:47:41

Tried: modprobe dm-mod with no change. Also upgraded kernel to latest 3-1 with no change in log-in.

Still no root log-in.

lilsirecho · 2008-08-30 18:17:33

Performed....pacman -Syu....on the CLI and downloaded 344MB of Kde4 upgrades. Still cannot log-in as root.

This upgrade from kernel 2.6.25 totalled ~3GB of installed packages...1221 of .tar.gz.

Why cannot I log-in as root?

lilsirecho · 2008-08-31 17:20:16

Help!

lilsirecho · 2008-08-31 22:45:54

Problem solved with change to /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.....at ...Allowrootlogin....set to true.

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#1 2008-08-28 01:17:45

Upgrade issue concerning Kde4 and log-in(Solved)

#2 2008-08-28 16:07:38

Re: Upgrade issue concerning Kde4 and log-in(Solved)

#3 2008-08-28 16:37:19

Re: Upgrade issue concerning Kde4 and log-in(Solved)

#4 2008-08-28 17:24:13

Re: Upgrade issue concerning Kde4 and log-in(Solved)

#5 2008-08-28 19:53:36

Re: Upgrade issue concerning Kde4 and log-in(Solved)

#6 2008-08-29 15:26:38

Re: Upgrade issue concerning Kde4 and log-in(Solved)

#7 2008-08-30 16:47:41

Re: Upgrade issue concerning Kde4 and log-in(Solved)

#8 2008-08-30 18:17:33

Re: Upgrade issue concerning Kde4 and log-in(Solved)

#9 2008-08-31 17:20:16

Re: Upgrade issue concerning Kde4 and log-in(Solved)

#10 2008-08-31 22:45:54

Re: Upgrade issue concerning Kde4 and log-in(Solved)

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