Hi, > Tried appending "single" to other commands.
Is this LILO related ? (Or what other commands, exactly ?) It is not easy to imagine what you see and try. > Took my root password which implies my users and > passwords are intact! The recognition of user and password relies on a very small part of the system. When i was younger, it was file /etc/passwd. The file still exists, but i would have to start research whether it still is the master and not some copy of some other user id data base. > Anything higher-level I tried to do there segfaulted. This is not explainable by some missing files. A SIGSEGV happens in the CPU and needs a bad memory address to be used by a program for data access. Causes i can imagine: - Damaged program or library files. Since everything fails, it would probably be some central library like libc. - Loading and executing of libraries for another operating system or CPU architecture. Maybe the guards which normally prevent mismatch produce it by themselves. - Defective hardware. Bad RAM, CPU, or mainboard are known to cause SIGSEGV for no software reason. But typically that either makes everything impossible or happens only under heavy load. Selective and reliable failure is rather not hardware style. Did i get it right that Live Linuxes do work properly on the machine in question ? Have a nice day :) Thomas
