unable to logon after updating ports collection - Freebsd 7.1 stable

[Boris Samorodov]

"Roy Stuivenberg" <roys1012 at gmail.com> writes:

> It didn't work.

Sure, you didn't give enough information.

> My problem has something to do with gnome2 I guess.

There is a gnome@ maillist which may be help, CCing it.
Right now there is a discussion about absence of gdm at the
last gnome version. May be that is the problem.

> You see, I can logon, except in graphical user mode.
> This happend after complete update (gnome2 included)
> I get a different logon prompt, and then I already know I won't be able to
> logon.
> Only this time I was hoping an upgrade of all the ports would help me .. and
> it didn't.
> I really hope I will find or get an answer to this problem.
> Thank you,
> Regards,
> Roy.
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> wrote:
>
>> "Roy Stuivenberg" <roys1012 at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > After I completed my Freebsd 7.1 stable, and updated all the ports, I got
>> > prompted with another logonscreen.
>> > Whatever I try, I can't login with my useraccount and even not logon as
>> > root.
>> > This happened severall times now, the only way was to reinstall
>> everything,
>> > and I was hoping to resolve this by completly finish upgrading the ports.
>> > And .. again the same problem.
>> > I'm really hoping to get some answers that will solve this problem, maybe
>> > someone had to deal with this  issue before ??
>> > I will not give up, because Freebsd stole my heart.
>>
>> The problem has nothing to do with ports. To restore your root/user logins:
>> . boot into single user mode;
>> . set a new root password;
>> . set a new user password;
>> . boot into multiuser mode;
>> . login and have fun.


WBR
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bsam