Help! Having a crisis here

[Roger Grosswiler]

> Hi,
> I have a bit of a problem.
> Something went wrong with my laptop. Sudden I could not login anymore. KDM
> kept reporting dat it had some kind of error (A critical error occurred.
> Please look at KDM's logfile(s) for more information or contact your system
> administrator.) and I could not login anymore. However, when I try to login
> over for instance ssh, I cannot either. So I think it is probably not a
> problem with KDM, but with the login. I cannot login under my normal user or
> under the root.
> Do you have any idea how to get in and what steps to check what exactly went
> wrong and how to fix it?
> I think something went wrong with some files on my system, since I had some
> problems with the disk also, however when I check the disk now, it's clean.
> It could be that login files were damaged or something.
>
> It also tried using Knoppix to get on the system, which works and I can read
> the kdm.log file under /var/log, but I cannot find any useful information
> there, except for some keyboard error, but that is probably not it.
>
> Please help, thanks,
> Jeroen
>
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do boot in runlevel 1 and have a look at the apporpriate logfiles. Can you send us some more information? If you
think, the loginfiles are damaged, look in /etc for passwd, shadow, groups and have a look for your users.

Roger