Posts: 8
katesfb
Joined: 29 Oct 2008
#1
Hi,
Recently installed antiX -m7.5 - every thing seemed to go fine until i rebooted after installing and tried to log in. I got an error"unable to execute login command" then the screen goes blank for a short period then the login screen reapears. Initially i thought that i had simply not put in the correct user name and password but this is not the case - if i put in an incorrect user name or password it simply resets and asks for the user name and password again so i dont think that is the problem.

Any ideas, any help is much appreciated.

Cheers.
Posts: 1,520
eriefisher
Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#2
At the login screen try CTL-ALT-F1 and see if you can login at the text prompt. I think maybe you might have a bad install or a bad disc burn.

If you can login via the console su to root and try startx.
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#3
If eriefisher's suggestion works, but on subsequent boots, you get the same problem, you might need to re-install slim.
Before you re-install slim, save the /etc/slim.conf file.
You will need it to make the login as default in antiX.