Greetings forum.
I downloaded and burned to CD, PC-BSD 1.5.1 (2 CD's) and just finished installing it. The install seemed to go without issue.
Following the completion of the install I removed the second CD and rebooted the machine as prompted. I have been brought to a login screen and have the option of entering the user name and password that I created at install.
When I enter the requested information I get the following error:
I have searched the Internet looking for an explanation of this error and found only one possibility that may hold a solution: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=2053
In this thread the OP (mrfontana) was able to login a couple of times before he started having problems.
This is not the case with me. I am not able to login at all with the user name that I created. And I cannot log in to the root account either.
When I try to boot into 'Safe Mode" I am presented with the exact same login screen as with the default login. On the login screen, I have two icons in the lower right corner of the screen: Session type and Menu. The only option that has any effect in either of these two items is in the Menu>Shutdown Alt+S.
I would like to be able to try the
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
jaaj
I downloaded and burned to CD, PC-BSD 1.5.1 (2 CD's) and just finished installing it. The install seemed to go without issue.
Following the completion of the install I removed the second CD and rebooted the machine as prompted. I have been brought to a login screen and have the option of entering the user name and password that I created at install.
When I enter the requested information I get the following error:
Code:
Authenticating [I]username[/I].....
A critical error occured.
Please look at KDM's logfile(s) or contact your system administrator.
I have searched the Internet looking for an explanation of this error and found only one possibility that may hold a solution: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=2053
In this thread the OP (mrfontana) was able to login a couple of times before he started having problems.
This is not the case with me. I am not able to login at all with the user name that I created. And I cannot log in to the root account either.
When I try to boot into 'Safe Mode" I am presented with the exact same login screen as with the default login. On the login screen, I have two icons in the lower right corner of the screen: Session type and Menu. The only option that has any effect in either of these two items is in the Menu>Shutdown Alt+S.
I would like to be able to try the
grep
commands that @anomie suggested in the above post but I can't or, more accurately, don't know how to get to a shell prompt to try them.Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
jaaj
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