Re: HELP!!!

["nico de haer" <nicodehaer@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

Can you enter your system by going to single-user mode? If this fails, i
fear that a bootdisk is the only thing left for you. On the other hand, you
need not fear, bootdisks are sufficient in most cases to fix your system.
(read: get it running so you can backup data). be a friend to yourself and
reinstall your system. I know this sounds 'windows-ish' but you don't want
to continue working on a system with a might-be-fried filesystem. The
potential problems are severe, unpredictable and hard to track down.

Yours,
Nico de Haer

----- Original Message -----
From: Lambrecht Joris <joris.lambrecht@pandora.be>
To: vester <a9900876@unet.univie.ac.at>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: HELP!!!


> Are you using an AZERTY or QWERZU keyboard by any chance ? Also, does your
pasword contain any characters that might be affected by such possible
problems.
>
>
> ------------------------
>  vester <a9900876@unet.univie.ac.at> 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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