Hi, This weekend I arrived home to find the Debian Squeeze system unable to accept a login. During startup, this line appears. Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd failed!
Xdm behaves as though the wrong password is given. Command line login works but then X fails with this error. (EE) open /dev/fb0: no such file or directory Login with telnet on an Ethernet connection gets this message repeatedly for about 30 s prior to the command prompt. root@joule:/home/peter# ls -l /dev/null Permissions are easily fixed but are back to the wrong values after a reboot. I'm shelving the problem for a day to two but want to mention that my backup system in such circumstances is ETH Native Oberon. http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ It receives and sends email, browses the Web sufficiently for troubleshooting the Linux system and is unsophisticated and superbly reliable. Mentioning it only in case others can benefit. TTFN, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 639 0202. Bcc: peter at easthope.ca "http://carnot.yi.org/ " "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/171057553.42562.35321@heaviside.invalid
