On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:07:25AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 17:29, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > Seriously, if you have another means of booting, mounting, and editing > > the password file (which you demonstrated that you do) just do it again > > and add the following line back in: > > > > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > > > > If you don't know the root password, this is also a good time to reset > > it, by blanking it out in /etc/shadow. > > > > good times, > > Vineet > --------------------------------------------------- > Tried every suggestion sent to no avail. Anyone else have any ideas? > Thanks for all of your replies. One thing I did notice is that I can not > log in as any user including root and I get the same error message; > can't log in to tty1. I may be following the wrong trail here. Keep In > mind that I am on somewhat of an adventure with this project anyway as I > have a running system on another disk in the same machine (evidence this > reply :-) so any ideas are welcome. BTW I have NEVER seen this > installation problem before & it may be related to the "Internet" > installation.
Do you have /etc/securetty ? It should contain your console devices (without /dev) mine reads : <<BEGIN>> console # Standard consoles tty1 tty2 tty3 # Same as above, but these only occur with devfs devices vc/1 vc/2 vc/3 <<END>> They go on to tty12, Frank > -- > John Foster > > > -- > 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]
