Re: HELP!!!
actually i did apt-get update one day ago. that is, i already rebooted
three or four times without no problems at all.
how can i boot into single user mode?
thanks!
On 30 Jun 2001, Aquila wrote:
> 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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