digitaloracle
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Recently, while shutting down my mandrake linux server, I decided to try and get a little more than 800x600x4 out of my *very* old video card (it's a server, so graphics aren't a priority, but 800x600 is tough to work in). Apparently the card couln't take it, because when I logged out to apply the changes, instead of going to the graphical login, it went to a bash login, and a reboot doesn't restore that graphical login.
That's ok, I said to myself, I'm going to buy a new box soon anyway, I'll just start apache and back up my MySQL phpbb database. But when I tried to login as root from teh bash prompt, despite my trying the password I had always used as the root password 5 or 6 times, it always gave me "login incorrect." Thinking it wanted me to log in as a normal user and su to root (I'm a bit of a newbie to linux), I tried that. After bash complaining about passwrods being expiredon the normal account(despite my best efforts to disable that in the mandrake config), i logged in as "system"- one of my normal users. try to su to root, and i get
[system@192]$su root
Password (type in the right pass)
Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator
su : incorrect password
I want to know why and how to fix this. It would aslo be nice to know how to edit X11/KDE resolution and color depth settings from bash and restore my graphical interface. Any assistance would be appreciated.
EDIT:
The root pass I am using is valid, I halted the system, and it prompted for thr root pass and mine was accepted, so the password being invalid does not appear to be the issue here.
That's ok, I said to myself, I'm going to buy a new box soon anyway, I'll just start apache and back up my MySQL phpbb database. But when I tried to login as root from teh bash prompt, despite my trying the password I had always used as the root password 5 or 6 times, it always gave me "login incorrect." Thinking it wanted me to log in as a normal user and su to root (I'm a bit of a newbie to linux), I tried that. After bash complaining about passwrods being expiredon the normal account(despite my best efforts to disable that in the mandrake config), i logged in as "system"- one of my normal users. try to su to root, and i get
[system@192]$su root
Password (type in the right pass)
Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator
su : incorrect password
I want to know why and how to fix this. It would aslo be nice to know how to edit X11/KDE resolution and color depth settings from bash and restore my graphical interface. Any assistance would be appreciated.
EDIT:
The root pass I am using is valid, I halted the system, and it prompted for thr root pass and mine was accepted, so the password being invalid does not appear to be the issue here.
