I've broken scologin! It loops back to the login screen.

[MonocleMike]

I have broken scologin and cannot see where! The story so far – I installed SCO5.0.6 and supplement 5.06a and all was well. I then tried to get SAMBA working and it was short of a library. I turned to SCO Skunkware and tried a few selective installs but it didn’t bring the library in so finally I installed the whole CD. All was well. I got in with various other minor tweaks and all was still well though I admit I hadn’t used scologin for some time. I now decided to tidy up and remove vast chunks of Skunkware since it occupies 1 GB of disk. Due to finger trouble I accidentally removed the whole of Skunkware though I had preserved the library that SAMBA needed and all was still well. I went on teaking and tidying and then wanted to use scologin and found it no longer works! I get the graphical login screen but after entering my user name and password the screen goes black, short pause and then offers the login screen again. If I use F1 to go into safe mode this gives me the expected minimum scoterm. I’ve looked in those logs that I can find a reference to and so far cannot get a hint but I don’t really know anything about this piece of software. In fact, I don’t know much more than the very basics of getting SCO running with the standard defaults. I don’t want the GUI as I don’t use it but my System Administrator uses it so can anyone make some suggestions as to the simplest way of just getting the basic standard version back? Can I just do a re-install? If so, sorry to ask, but how?

 

[stankow]

Reasons could be numerous. A lot. Only want shortly to note - resently I have same symptom. After short time without any other message scologin reappears.
User had no accsess or no HOME catalogue at all.
Check .profile file. Check $HOME and access rights to it.
If it is wrong login process will be stopped accidently, but there will be no indications.

Stankow,

http://www.noac.biz

 

[MonocleMike]

Thank you for the suggestion but it is not this. Tried different users all of whom can log in on character-based terminals.

 

[trpmaom66]

try editing the Xservers file
go to /etc/X11/scologin

vi Xservers

 

[MonocleMike]

Thank you for your suggestions but I have managed to persuade the system administrator that using scoadmin from the comfort of his own desk is far preferable to using scologin on the console. I have therefore been able to issue "scologin disable" to my immense relief! Subject therefore closed.