* Kent West (westk@nicanor.acu.edu) [010627 09:04]: > Alan Davis wrote: > > > My machine has been up for a few days, and now I cannot take it down, since only the sessions that are now open to root will work. I am running "sid" the unstable, and recently did a major upgrade. [snip] > > To get into root, you'll have to reboot your computer (probably > Ctrl-Aflt-F1 to get to the first virtual terminal, followed by a > Ctrl-Alt-Delete to force a reboot should do it) and boot into single > user mode. You can do this by typing "linux s" at the "boot:" prompt > (assuming your normal kernel image is named "linux"). > > Kent No, don't reboot!!! If you already have a root session open somewhere just install the new PAM package therefrom. If you reboot you'll have to deal with single-user-mode or init=/bin/sh and some other tricks. If you already have a root session open, just apt-get update && apt-get upgrde from there. Vineet
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