Re: Login refused
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From: "Johann Spies" <jhspies@adept.co.za>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 1:32 PM
Subject: Login refused
> Fortunately I did not do a dist-upgrade with my 2.2 disks right away.
> I first did a new install on another partition. apt dist-upgrade
> resulted in my old system being unusable. I can use the data of the
> old installation from the new installation by mounting the old
> partition, but my old system would not allow me to log in.
>
> In the startup-messages there was something about a PAM error but as
> gpm is not working I could not cut and paste it into this mail.
>
> It is not that it refuses my password. It does not even ask for a
> password. The login-prompt just reappears.
>
> Is there a way to solve this?
can you type "linux 1" at the LILO prompt? that should take you to the
maintenance mode
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