Re: runlevels [was: fried(?) computer hangs on boot]
Kent West wrote:
Vikki Roemer wrote:
Did that, got a couple of weird errors, and found out anacron is
what's freezing up the system.
The errors are:
starting blinkenlights: nice: start-stop-daemon: no such file or
directory.
gdnc unable to make connection to 127.0.0.1:538 -- network is
unreachable
uncaught exception NSPortTimeoutException, reason: timed out
unregistering port
So how do I fix anacron, get back nice, and fix my networking stack
(I assume that's what's fubarred)? Is there any way to fix those?
Try "apt-get --reinstall install anacron".
Well, I would, but I can't log in. I have it booting up now, I get a
login prompt, it'll accept my username, but it hangs trying to
authenticate my password. Do you think this is a problem with login (I
think that's the program), or whatever file the passwords are stored in?
The passwords aren't stored in /etc/passwd because they're encrypted--
I know that much. And I tried logging in as both root and as a normal
user and both logins are hung.
And, AFAIK, only 3 programs (so far) are seriously damaged: anacron,
cron, and fetchmail-- those were the ones that were hanging on boot up.
As for those other errors above, I assume that in single-user mode,
nice doesn't work (same as ctrl-z) and neither does networking.
I'd recommend you respond to the list rather than to me, in case I
tell you something wrong, or others need to clarify things, or I don't
know the answer, as well as to provide a record in the archives in the
event someone in the future has a similar problem.
Oops, sorry, I thought I had. Mozilla is driving me nuts because it
doesn't have a "reply to list" feature like mutt does. :(
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