Re: [ ? ] Locked out after recent dselect upgrade
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Mikol Graves wrote:
> Yesterday I did what has become a pretty standard dselect update and
> install. But something went very wrong with yesterday's upgrade. I can
> no longer log into my workstation as root, myself or any other user
> remotely or at the local console. In fact, at the local console the
> login fails without asking for a password.
>
> I'm pretty sure that I should be able to reboot and do something like:
>
> linux init=/bin/sh
>
> or:
>
> linux single
>
> to get root access again, but I would still be at a loss as to how I
> could correct the lockout problem.
'linux single' worked fine for me. For some reason the PAM problem doesn't
affect it. I just installed the updated debs from incoming.debian.org and
I can login again.
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