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    Did an upgrade and changed to GDM now user can't login.

    After doing a synaptic upgrade of kde I could not login. I got to the tty1 prompt so I just did Apt-get install gdm and that got me into the desktop. After shutting down and later starting up again, I cannot login as user, only root.
    How can I get access to my account back? With gdm preferably or with kdm?

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    check to make sure /etc/rc5.d/S99rmnologin exist.
    or
    run dpkg --configure -a ; maybe you missed some configuration.

    Above doesn't work, try delete user and recreate user again:
    userdel username
    useradd -m -d /home/username username



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    I run that as root or from the cd.

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    From root.

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