On Fri, 02 May 2008 21:17:36 +0200, andrel wrote:

> Invisible wrote:
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> 
>>> I still prefer the one I got from Windows + a biometric scanner
>>> (during GINA login):  "An error occurred:  The operation was
>>> successful".  Oh, and it wouldn't log me in (I wish I could've gotten
>>> a screenshot)
>> 
>> Well *clearly* a Windows operation being successful would indicate an
>> error; Windows operations are designed to _fail_. ;-)
>> 
> My interpretation was that because an error occurred the process could
> not validated your login, hence it should not log you in and indeed it
> was successful at not letting you in. In my opinion it is thus a
> correct, though slightly confusing, message.

That's possible - Digital Persona (whose stuff we were using) had 
absolutely no idea what the issue was.  We ended up rebuilding the 
machine - it borked things up so badly that even booting in safe mode 
didn't work (ISTR we ended up with no ability to login at all even in 
safe mode).

Jim

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