On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:27:08 -0700 "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo unmount /dev/hdd > sudo: pam_authenticate: Module is unknown > > This just happened very recently. hate replying to myself, but need some help. due to some other broken-ness, had to reboot. when I got to a console prompt I could not login. Got halfway working with a chroot off of a knoppix disk, but there are a couple of gotchas still - and I really don't know how to fix it. Anyone else having issues along this line? I just did an aptitude update & aptitude upgrade earlier today - and then also was trying to install new kde components (libqt4-dev & friends, which then brought in a whole slew of previously held back kde -related things) but that in and of itself is not relevant to my current problem. > And if I try logging on on a VC, it just says "login incorrect" > > I have a root shell opened so I can wait I guess until something gets > fixed - as long as this box doesn't go down and I have then to boot it > up with a knoppix or something :() > > "New shell" in kde works, but not "New Root Shell" - likely because in > the former I'm not relogging in, just spawning another instance of bash > running under konsole. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > David E. Fox Thanks for letting me > [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]