do you need to restart [xkg]dm?

On Nov 06 2003, at 15:51, Vaughn Treude was caught saying:
> Hello all...
> I'm just a mass of problems this week.   The old hard drive on my SuSE system 
> died, and I'm trying to bring it up on another system.  This time for some 
> reason it didn't prompt me to add a user.  It come up with the graphical 
> login, and not having created a user, I tried to log in as root - wouldn't 
> allow it.  So I did ctrl-alt-F2 and logged in as root in text mode.    I 
> added the group "vaughn" and the user "vaughn" and the directory 
> /home/vaughn.  I also did a password for my new user, and verified that there 
> was a shell set there (thanks, Hans.)  Then I copied the directories from 
> /etc/skel and the config files from the .root directory.  So it looks like I 
> have a viable home directory.  I logged out and tested logging in as "vaughn" 
> in text mode; it worked.  Then I did ctrl-alt-F7 to get back to the graphical 
> login.  I entered "vaughn" and my password; the response is "Login Failed."  
> I supposed there must be a security setting somewhere that's prohibiting my 
> login, but I'm not sure where it would be.  I looked in /var/log for the 
> authentication log, to look for my login failure in hopes of seeing exactly 
> what the problem was, but there was no such file, and I couldn't find any 
> messages related to a failed X login.  Can anyone point me in the right 
> direction?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Vaughn Treude
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