Re: No command line prompt for root
> Any ideas as to what happened and what is the remedy will be very much
> appreciated.
This is a very common problem, and solution has been posted many times.
Sysklogd -29 is broken.
reboot in single user mode
chmod -x /etc/init.d/sysklogd
reboot
install a new sysklogd (-30) or the hamm version
make it executable
start it
voila
HTH,
Matthew
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