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Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system



Please do not take into accounts the two `|' which were unfortunately
inserted at the beginning and at the end of the line of code.

Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Hi,
> I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message
>
> "Give root password for maintainance
> or type Control_D to continue "
>
> during reboot of the system. It would occur after the boot messages
>
> starting NFS (... etc)
> ...
> starting sessions
> setting console screen modes
> initilizing random number generation
> setting up X server
> setting up ice socket directory
>
> then I would get that cryptic root password mesage stuff mentioned above
>
> Then, 
> if I hit C-d 
> the systen continues to boot
> with 
>
> some messages about needing to add .conf suffix to some configuration files for kvm or something
> then
> INIT: Entering runlevel 2
> starting system log daemon
> etc.
>
> So what is causing my system to need to enter Control D?
>
> It is not a failure is fsck checking.
>
> So what is going on?
>
> Thanks,
> Mitchell Laks
>
>
>   


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