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Re: apt-get upgrade: now I can not login at ALL!!!help



Try booting with the lilo option: init=/bin/sh 
This will provide you with a root shell where you can try to fix things...

Ron Rademaker

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Jose M de Aguiar wrote:

> Help!!!!!
> 
> I have my Debian kernel 2.2.14. Today, as I periodically do, I run
> apt-get update
> then apt-get upgrade. During the process I answered ALL QUESTIONS WITH
> KEEPING THE INSTALLED CONFIGURATION.(Default=N) . Once finished the
> upgrade, I was not able to use Real Audio. My default windows manager
> was
> fvwm95. I restarted the windows manager and doing a login in Debian, as
> usual.
> But the windows manager was twm. I DID NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES AT ALL
> DURING UPGRADE!!!
> 
> I decided to reboot the machine. It did go well, however once xdm starts
> now I
> don't have the Debian Login Window. Instead, now it comes XWindow.
> But the worst is: I CAN NOT LOGIN AS USER OR ROOT. It is really serious.
> 
> Something is NOT WORKING IN THE DEBIAN PACKAGE.
> 
> WHAT CAN I DO?????? HOW CAN I RESCUE MY SYSTEM AND FIX IT?
> 
> Please, URGENT reply to: jmaguiar@surfree.com
> 
> Thanks a lot!!!
> 
> 
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