After maintenance upgrade can not login locally

[SoftWore]

Hi
I use mandriva linux. A few days before I applied the automated maintenance, but when I rebooted the computer I get a blank screen. There is literally nothing on the screen not even the login page or the splash page. Now, I can login to my computer remotely by using ssh but can not login locally. I had just tried to upgrade my system to a newer version. After lot of research on internet I brought the login screen and the splash screen to appear. But now the porblem is that when i enter the username and password, a few seconds after the whole screen goes blank and the login screen appears again. I can not login locally but can still login remotely using ssh. Any idea about this, how to resolve the problem? Thanks in advance.

[Devasis]

Hi
I am not sure what the exact problem is but you can try the following command, become the root user and issue the following.

urpmi --auto-update -v

You will need to run this command a couple of times so that it upgrades each and everything. Hope this may help you. Any more problems do post back.

[NetWorkInG]

Hey
I have the same problem on my computer. The command that you posted above, tried it from the console login, but it could not find the urpmi command.

urpmi --auto-update -v

Am I going somewhere wrong? When I log in from the local log in screen as usually I do always, the screen flashes a bit, then I get a glimpse of the desktop, but after a few minutes it goes blank and returns me to the log in screen again. Once I had experienced a error message of a Fatal error. Please help.

[Solomon]

Hi

The command that you posted above, tried it from the console login, but it could not find the urpmi command.

To run urpmi you must be in the root account first, the option is to, login to the root in console or use the su to switch to root account users. If you fail again, I think the best way is to take a backup of all the files of your computer and then do a clean install again. This will be the safest way to go.

[Calvin K]

Hi,
I was trying to update the system, but then I though not to upgrade the system. So I shut down the PC normally, but when I tried to restart the machine did not. When I login to my account the desktop appears form some time and then it returns back to the login screen. I am using KDE as mu default desktop environment. Some times the Nvidia logo is displayed and then again I return to the login screen. I have tried this from the terminal as a root user.

urpmi --auto-update -V

This did not sort the problem. I look into my user directory for the x-session error logs, there are lot of failure logs in the directory, the logs where out of my scope, I could not understand any thing. I tired to login using ICEWN is fine. I think that I have to do a fresh install of KDE configuration files. This is the only solution I can see now.

[jesse]

Hi
If you have a different user account you can try to login to that account and then fix the problems, or do you use any different desktop environment such as lxde or xfce, if you use it, you can login from that desktop environment and then fix the problem. I think I had a similar problem a few months ago, I have an kde update issue which caused the problem. But I do not recall exactly the problem, I think i had moved all the kde setting from the way. Note that do not delete the setting just move them to another directory.