Damir Naden wrote: Re-boot from your rescue disk, mounting your root partition without formatting it, and whatever partition holds your favorite editor. Use that editor to edit /target/etc/passwd (IIRC) and change the root login (and anyothers you like) to ksh or csh or, God help you, tclsh, or something; then reboot. HTH > > ** Confidential ** > > Greetings -- > > First off, I know I shouldn't have done it... > Now-- I tried to upgrade bash from hamm (I used to have bash_2.01-5.deb from > hamm way back in January of 1998) to the newest bash_2.01.1-1_i386.deb from > ftp1.us.debian.org last night. > The upgrade didn't go well, and now I'm stuck with no capability to do much > of the things: I can't log in as a user or as a root (I'm still logged in as > a root on one VC and that one sort of works). I tried downgrading to my > original hamm bash package, but I can' mount a floppy anymore- it says that > fs type msdos is not supported- and insmod by hand gives me a three lines of > "unresolved symbols". Soooo, is there anything I can do in the console I'm > still logged in or should I just reinstall the > My system info (system was working fine for three full months...): > kernel 2.0.33 custom compiled > dpkg_1.4.0.21 > libc6_2.06 (I think, I'm not home now...) > old bash 2.01-5 and corresponding libreadline > ncurses3.4_1.9.9 from hamm > > dpkg -install output: > . > dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script killed by signal (Seg fault), core > dumped > dpkg - trying script from the new package instead... > dpkg: error processing bash_2.01.1-1_i386.deb (--install): subprocess new > pre-removalscript killed by signal (Seg fault), core dumped > dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post instalation script killed by > signal (Seg fault), core dumped > Errors were encountered while processing: bash_2.01.1-1_i386.deb > > dpkg --status partiall output: > > installed OK half-configured > configure-version: 2.01-5 > > PLEASE, respond to this E-mail, since I'm not subscribed to the list at work : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks > Damir > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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