Re: locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)
hi ya
guessing ...
- make sure your / is NOT 100%....
- make sure "touch /foo.test.txt" works ( it should be writable )
- make sure you do NOT have /etc/nologin
- make sure df shows all your partitions
- or ... you might have a corrupted libcrypt and/or libpams
since single user login works... its unlikely to be libs
c ya
alvin
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, vester wrote:
>
> hello...
>
> i am still unable to log into my system, however, i am a little wiser than
> before.
>
> here is what i know:
>
> -i am unable to log into my system. the system boots as usual, at the
> login prompt i login (either normal user or root), give my password and
> get a "login incorrect"
>
> -i am able to log into single user mode (with my root password, so the
> password must be working still) but i have no idea what i could do there
> to get back into the system.
>
> -i am able to boot from a rescue disk, but again, i am unable to
> login.
>
> -i assume the whole problem was caused by manually running fsck...it
> started automatically on boot-up (the UT installation had caused some
> errors i think) and then prompted me to run fsck manually, which i
> did, answering yes to all the questions...after it was finished everything
> seemed to work, except i couldn't log into the system...
>
> -i think the problem has something to do with the root system being
> miounted as read-only, but i am not sure of thet and i don't know how to
> fix it, i tried to mount -o remount rw / from the single user mode and i
> tried to start with giving lilo the additional rw parameter...neither of
> those things changed anything though.
>
> does anyone know how to get back into my system?
>
> thanks a lot!
>
> vester
>
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