---- Original Message ----- From: "Johann Spies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 1:32 PM Subject: Login refused
> Fortunately I did not do a dist-upgrade with my 2.2 disks right away. > I first did a new install on another partition. apt dist-upgrade > resulted in my old system being unusable. I can use the data of the > old installation from the new installation by mounting the old > partition, but my old system would not allow me to log in. > > In the startup-messages there was something about a PAM error but as > gpm is not working I could not cut and paste it into this mail. > > It is not that it refuses my password. It does not even ask for a > password. The login-prompt just reappears. > > Is there a way to solve this? can you type "linux 1" at the LILO prompt? that should take you to the maintenance mode
