Re: HELP!!!, can't login even as root

[arodriguez31@cfl.rr.com]

Well, I did it, but it didn't help. Still unable to boot. The corresponding entry in fstab was changed to
r,w,exec
Even from the woody rescue cd couldn't get in, same response. Used a grub floppy, tried to load another kernel, 2.4.20 i think, same response.
Any ideas what to do? Sunday, all are resting, bad luck for me.
Don't want to reinstall everything from scratch.
Hoping some ideas will pop from someones fingers.
Thank you David.

Try this from a knoppix xterm (or other terminal)

$ su
# mkdir /mnt/debian
# mount -o rw,exec -t auto /dev/<root partition> /mnt/debian
# chroot /mnt/debian /bin/bash
# mount -a
# <text-editor> /etc/fstab
make sure that / is mounting read-write and exec


arodriguez31@cfl.rr.com wrote:
> Running sid, computer went bananas. Gnome terminal 
> froze. Logged out from X. Couldn't come back. 
> Rebooteed. This is what happens: 
>  
> INIT: cannot excute "/etc/init.d/rcS" 
> INIT: Entering runlevel:2 
> INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init/d/rc" 
> INIT: cannot execute "/usr/sbin/secvpnmon" 
> same same same 
> Id "SVPN" respawning too fast: 
> disabled for 5 minutes 
> (none) login: {I enter root} 
> Password: {I enter root password} 
> Unable to change tty /dev/tty1: Read-only file 
> system. 
> Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied. 
> Debian Gnu/Linux 3.1 (none) tty1 
> (none) login: 
> {I do again Control + Alt + Delete} 
> Init: Switching to runlevel:6 
> INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal 
> INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal 
> INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" 
> Give root password for maintenance 
> (or type Control-D to continue) 
> {I enter root password} 
> /bin/bash/: Permission denied 
> /bin/sh: Permission denied 
> Login incorrect 
> Give root password for maintenance 
> (or type Control-D to continue. 
>  
> After several of these cycles I give up, pull my 
> Knoppix CD, boot from it, and from this yahoo 
> account send this desperate SOS to my debian 
> fellow users. 
>  
> A few mintes after, from webmail at rr i repeat 
> the message. I think from the yahoo account it 
> didn't make it. 
> 
> 

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David Mandelberg
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