Re: No command line prompt for root
> Something strange happened to my Debian system. I can login as an
> ordinary user and it works normally but when I login as root, it printed
> out the motd on the screen and said that root has been logged in. A
> 'who' from another user confirms it. It even told me "no mail for root"
> but I don't get the command line prompt # and so I can do nothing as
> root. Su'ing from an ordinary user meets with the same failure. A Ctrl-C
> will give back the login: prompt. I've used the rescue disk to boot up
> and checked the .bash_profile, .bashrc and /etc/passwd files and they
> are all OK.
> (I upgraded to slink, kernel 2.0.35 from hamm a few days ago.)
Your version of sysklogd is? if it is 1.3-29 then you have the bugged up
version. download the latest sysklogd (it's been fixed to 1.3-30) from
your local mirror then boot single and install it :) It does sound
like this is the problem, and this error has been frequently raised in
#debian and on the dbian-user mailing lists :)
Nikolai
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