Re: HELP!!!

[Aquila <aquila@hypox.org>]

This could possibly be the libpam* problem which has nothing to do with
your UT installation or manual fscking... did you apt-get upgrade prior
to last reboot? Try boot into single user mode and apt-get
update/upgrade again.

On 30 Jun 2001 12:39:24 +0200, vester wrote:
> 
> hi everyone --
> 
> i fear i did something stupid.
> 
> i wanted to try and see how good linux games actually work, so i
> downloaded the unreal tournament installer from loki, copied the cds to my
> windows hard disk (because i didn't have support for joliet extension in
> linux) and well...installed, which seemed to work fine. i then tried to
> start, but got some error messages because of missing paths, which didn't
> look very serious really. but then i restarted...on boot up, there were a
> lot of errors found on the hard disk and thus, the root system was mounted
> read-only and i was prompted to run fsck manually. i did that and answered
> yes to the questions (i realise now that i maybe shouldn't have done that)
> and it seemed as if everything had been fixed, for on the next reboot
> everything worked fine...all my scripts were executed and i ended up in
> gdm and wanted to log in...but that didn't work. i switched over to the
> console and tried to log in from there. no way. "login incorrect" is what
> i get for all my user accounts and for the root account too! i am
> desperate...i need to get back into my system! on the one hand i put weeks
> and weeks into configuring and customizing everything and on the other
> hand all my important data are in there...please, please help me...the
> loki support people have not answered me yet and i am on the verge of
> panicking.
> 
> oh yes, my system is debian woody (with a few things from sid) with kernel
> 2.4.5...i don't know what else to say. :-(
> 
> thanks all!
> 
> -vester
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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