Hi, Can you enter your system by going to single-user mode? If this fails, i fear that a bootdisk is the only thing left for you. On the other hand, you need not fear, bootdisks are sufficient in most cases to fix your system. (read: get it running so you can backup data). be a friend to yourself and reinstall your system. I know this sounds 'windows-ish' but you don't want to continue working on a system with a might-be-fried filesystem. The potential problems are severe, unpredictable and hard to track down.
Yours, Nico de Haer ----- Original Message ----- From: Lambrecht Joris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: vester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 2:43 PM Subject: Re: HELP!!! > Are you using an AZERTY or QWERZU keyboard by any chance ? Also, does your pasword contain any characters that might be affected by such possible problems. > > > ------------------------ > vester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ------------------------ > > >hi everyone -- > > > >i fear i did something stupid. > > > >i wanted to try and see how good linux games actually work, so i > >downloaded the unreal tournament installer from loki, copied the cds to my > >windows hard disk (because i didn't have support for joliet extension in > >linux) and well...installed, which seemed to work fine. i then tried to > >start, but got some error messages because of missing paths, which didn't > >look very serious really. but then i restarted...on boot up, there were a > >lot of errors found on the hard disk and thus, the root system was mounted > >read-only and i was prompted to run fsck manually. i did that and answered > >yes to the questions (i realise now that i maybe shouldn't have done that) > >and it seemed as if everything had been fixed, for on the next reboot > >everything worked fine...all my scripts were executed and i ended up in > >gdm and wanted to log in...but that didn't work. i switched over to the > >console and tried to log in from there. no way. "login incorrect" is what > >i get for all my user accounts and for the root account too! i am > >desperate...i need to get back into my system! on the one hand i put weeks > >and weeks into configuring and customizing everything and on the other > >hand all my important data are in there...please, please help me...the > >loki support people have not answered me yet and i am on the verge of > >panicking. > > > >oh yes, my system is debian woody (with a few things from sid) with kernel > >2.4.5...i don't know what else to say. :-( > > > >thanks all! > > > >-vester > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
