Re: locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)

2001-07-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya vestor yu get the "/etc/nologin" file created during shutdown ... and upon reboot...or shutdown... it is NOT cleaning up after itself... if you pulled the power on it or something odd... it is not yet able to resync itself... gotta keep rebooting n-times till it works right try init 6, sh

Re: [users] Re: locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)

2001-07-01 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach vester (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 06:44:12PM +0200): > okay...i found something. i think alvin was right when he pointed out that > it could be because of /etc/nologin (but i cannot log in as root > either)... the thing is, the file is there, > and i already deleted it but it always comes bac

Re: locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)

2001-07-01 Thread vester
okay...i found something. i think alvin was right when he pointed out that it could be because of /etc/nologin (but i cannot log in as root either)... the thing is, the file is there, and i already deleted it but it always comes back. there also is a /etc/nologin.boot and a script /etc/init.d/rmn

Re: locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)

2001-07-01 Thread vester
hi! i am doing this in single user mode obviously... > - make sure your / is NOT 100% uhm...what do you mean? it's not 100% full if that is what you meant =) > - make sure "touch /foo.test.txt" works ( it should be writable ) works perfectly fine > - make sure you do NOT have /etc/nologi

Re: locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)

2001-07-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya guessing ... - make sure your / is NOT 100% - make sure "touch /foo.test.txt" works ( it should be writable ) - make sure you do NOT have /etc/nologin - make sure df shows all your partitions - or ... you might have a corrupted libcrypt and/or libpams since single user login

locked out of my own system (was: HELP!!!)

2001-07-01 Thread vester
hello... i am still unable to log into my system, however, i am a little wiser than before. here is what i know: -i am unable to log into my system. the system boots as usual, at the login prompt i login (either normal user or root), give my password and get a "login incorrect" -i am able to l