On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 10:37:18AM -0400, Roy John Little wrote: > Dear list: > I have just upgraded from Debian 2.1 to 2.2 by way of apt-get > upgrade-dist, and all was upgraded successfully, as far as I could tell. > I decided to reinitiate the session. The login prompt with the banner > background appeared, with the disturbing difference that, instead of > saying "Debian GNU/Linux" I got "This is an unsecure session," and I > cannot login now as root or as anyone else. I have booted from the rescue > disk and mounted my previously installed partition but am at a loss as to > what file to edit to recover my ability to login.
Is this a graphical or console login?
What happens if you switch to a different virtual console and try a
console login. Usually 'alt' plus 'control' plus F1 - F6, eg:
<alt><ctrl><F1>
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