Re: [DISASTER] Latest update broke my system entirely
Jonas, what happens if you leave off the root= bit?
I am getting at, boot using nothing but the rescue disk. It ought to be
enough to get you to a prompt, from there you can mount /mnt /dev/hda7 and
play around with things in there....
good luck
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 08:32:06AM +0200, Jonas Steverud wrote:
>
> I updated my potato system last Thursday (23rd of September) and it
> broke my system beyond belief.
>
> When I in dselect installed the packages I've just fetched (using
> ftp.uk.debian.org) I got some errormessages about not recognized
> packages. If I understood it correctly the files where broken.
>
> Since I thought that the files was not installed I payed it no furhter
> attention and shutdown. Bad move.
>
> Upon shutdown INIT (?) complains about "nothing more to run in this
> runlevel" and halts. I reboot (reset-button on computer) and INIT
> complains about it can't execute /etc/init.d/rcS. I get the
> login prompt but cannot login as ordinary user nor root.
>
> I try the boot disc. No success (not very surprising).
>
> I download the resucedisc and "boot: rescue root=/dec/hda7" which
> gives me this (I get the same for the two above):
>
> ------8<-----
> INIT: Version 2.77 booting
> INIT: Cannot execute execute "/etc/init.d/rcS"
> INIT: Entering runlevel 2
> INIT: Cannot execute execute "/etc/init.d/rc"
>
> Debian GNU/Linux potato (none) tty1
>
> (none) login: root
> login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_authenticate
> login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_setcred
> login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_authenticate
> login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_setcred
> password: [excuse me a moment]
> PAM_unix[10]: (login) session opened for user root by js(uid=0)
> login[10]: unable to change tty '/dev/tty1' for user 'root'
>
> login[10]: unable to change tty '/dev/tty1'; Illegal seek
>
> {new login prompt}
>
> ------8<-----
>
> How can I fix this? I cannot login to my system to see what is wrong!
>
> If I get on the system I can grap the output from script(1) (ran
> dselect under it) and put it on my homepage for debug.
>
> Complete reinstall of the system is not an option since I have quite
> some files not backed up. The irony is that I was planning to back up
> the system to a cdr last weekend.
>
> /Jonas, with a FUBAR linux-system.
> --
> ( Jonas Steverud @ www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d4jonas/ ! Wei Wu Wei )
> ( U2MoL, Roleplaying, LaTeX, Emacs/Gnus, SCWM, etc. ! To Do Without Do )
>
>
> --
> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
--
Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/
Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help
Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into
your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Reply to: