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- From: stanj@ferrari.corp.sgi.com (Stan Jensen)
- Subject: Re: Login failure
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.191342.15088@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Keywords: FAQ?
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- References: <34008@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:13:42 GMT
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- In article <34008@adm.brl.mil>, bclark@wankle.ctron.com (Bret Clark) writes:
- |> >I have a user who cannot log in directly to one of our Iris 4Ds
- |> >running 4.0.1. He tries, the screen blanks for a moment, and then
- |> >he's back at the login menu. (Even with no password, he fails.)
- |> >All other logins, on that machine or by that user, succeed. He
- |> >has a pretty boring .login and .cshrc. Any clues?
- |>
- |>
- |> I have just starting seeing the problem Iris INDIGO. It appears to be with the
- |> program pandora. I have not been able to track it down. .login and .chsrc has
- |> nothing to do with the problem. The only solution I have been able to find is
- |> to disable visual login under /etc/config/visuallogin or to reformat and reload
- |> the OS (Not a great fix).
- |>
- |> I am interested in knowing of a fix as well.
- |>
- |> Bret Clark
- |> Mail Address: bclark@ctron.com
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- See if "/etc/config/system.glGammaVal" is missing or empty. If so, try:
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- echo 1.7 > /etc/config/system.glGammaVal
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- This has been fixed in one of the 4.0.x releases (after 4.0.1).
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