I did something similar a while back. You don't necessarily have to reformat. If you have a rescue disk, or have access to another computer to create a rescue disk, use that to boot the machine. Then use ae to edit /etc/passwd. There, you can manually change "chsh --version" back to whatever shell you want to use (e.g. /bin/bash). Hope that helps.
-- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452 Jason Draut wrote: > > I recent was trying to upgrade my kernel and in the Documentation was told > I need chsh version x.xx. I tried to check this by typing > "chsh --version", > but this gave me an error message. > I then just typed chsh and get a prompt, so I typed > "chsh --version", > again and nothing really happened. I realized what happened when I tried > to login again. Currently, my root user is trying to run the shell > "chsh --version", and obviously isn't working. Is there anyway to change > my login shell back to bash from twm (my Xwindows manager) without opening > a window? (when I open a window it just closes after an error message > about "chsh --version" not being a valid shell or something). > > I'm probably going to have to reformat my "/" partition (separate from > "/usr" partition), but if anyone has a better idea, please let me know! > > Thanks, > Jason > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
