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Re: Unidentified subject!



> Hi everyone!
>         All of a sudden my root account seems to be quite broken. When I su to
> root and type in the password and hit enter, it just stops and doesn't do
> anything. I have to press Ctrl+C.
>         If I try to login as root in another VC, it gets 

I suspect this is the (now canonical) proken sysklogd problem.

boot in single-user
chmod -x /etc/init.d/sysklogd
reboot
install the newest (-30) version
make it executable again.

voila


Matthew

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