Re: locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)
hi!
i am doing this in single user mode obviously...
> - make sure your / is NOT 100%....
uhm...what do you mean? it's not 100% full if that is what you meant =)
> - make sure "touch /foo.test.txt" works ( it should be writable )
works perfectly fine
> - make sure you do NOT have /etc/nologin
/etc/nologin does not exist...
> - make sure df shows all your partitions
df shows all my partitions.
any ideas what else i could try?
thanks!
vester
>
> - 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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