Re: chsh

[Brian Stults <bs7452@csc.albany.edu>]

I did something similar a while back.  You don't necessarily have to
reformat.  If you have a rescue disk, or have access to another computer
to create a rescue disk, use that to boot the machine.  Then use ae to
edit /etc/passwd.  There, you can manually change "chsh --version" back
to whatever shell you want to use (e.g. /bin/bash).  Hope that helps.

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Brian J. Stults
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Jason Draut wrote:
> 
> I recent was trying to upgrade my kernel and in the Documentation was told
> I need chsh version x.xx.  I tried to check this by typing
> "chsh --version",
> but this gave me an error message.
> I then just typed chsh and get a prompt, so I typed
> "chsh --version",
> again and nothing really happened.  I realized what happened when I tried
> to login again.  Currently, my root user is trying to run the shell
> "chsh --version", and obviously isn't working.  Is there anyway to change
> my login shell back to bash from twm (my Xwindows manager) without opening
> a window?  (when I open a window it just closes after an error message
> about "chsh --version" not being a valid shell or something).
> 
> I'm probably going to have to reformat my "/" partition (separate from
> "/usr" partition), but if anyone has a better idea, please let me know!
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
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