I have been using a FreeBSD 7.2 generic x86 installation that has been working well for a few months, and now the root account login prompts normally on boot then prompts for password normally, and after a correct response and display of a welcome message, returns to the login prompt without going to the command prompt. This only happens for the root account, my other non-super account was not affected.
This happened after first trying to get a compiling version of gedit (which defeated me after I threw a few dependency installations at it but couldn't get an iconv() library dependency installed) and then trying to install the gnustep from the port, which failed because of missing gtk+ or other dependency installs. I am not sure when in that process the problem first occurred, I was probably installing from the sources wrong and to the wrong locations.
I have pretty much resigned myself to a fresh install, but
I am wondering if anyone has seen this problem, and if there might be a better way to manage the software installation I was trying to do. None of the Gnome package manager type programs like BPM were working very well for me, hopefully that has changed in FreeBSD 8.0.
This happened after first trying to get a compiling version of gedit (which defeated me after I threw a few dependency installations at it but couldn't get an iconv() library dependency installed) and then trying to install the gnustep from the port, which failed because of missing gtk+ or other dependency installs. I am not sure when in that process the problem first occurred, I was probably installing from the sources wrong and to the wrong locations.
I have pretty much resigned myself to a fresh install, but
I am wondering if anyone has seen this problem, and if there might be a better way to manage the software installation I was trying to do. None of the Gnome package manager type programs like BPM were working very well for me, hopefully that has changed in FreeBSD 8.0.
