Re: Lost Login after running e2fsck how to repair

2004-03-11 Thread CW Harris
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 07:55:29PM +0100, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > Hallo, > >Is there any way to reinstall the root user?? > well basically, that's the problem, lfs users have to deal with during > install. I think (but You might get more acurate descriptions from > http://www.linuxfromscratch.o

Re: Lost Login after running e2fsck how to repair

2004-03-11 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, >Is there any way to reinstall the root user?? well basically, that's the problem, lfs users have to deal with during install. I think (but You might get more acurate descriptions from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ ) their way is to create the passwd file at first, than chroot into the

Re: Lost Login after running e2fsck how to repair

2004-03-11 Thread John Foster
Jonathan Schmitt wrote: Hallo I can NOT any longer log in to the repaired system, after running e2fsck. All logins fail. You should look into the /etc directory and check whether or not /etc/passwd and /etc/passwd- (in case You used shadow Passwords) are present. To gain access at first

Re: Lost Login after running e2fsck how to repair

2004-03-11 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo >I can NOT any longer log in to the >repaired system, after running e2fsck. All logins fail. You should look into the /etc directory and check whether or not /etc/passwd and /etc/passwd- (in case You used shadow Passwords) are present. To gain access at first, You could boot som cd distro

Lost Login after running e2fsck how to repair

2004-03-11 Thread John Foster
I'm running SID on my systems & I was upgrading one of the drives to the newest version so I did a dist-upgrade. I did not realize it but I had the other SID system mounted to the file tree. It totally fracked the second drives file tree ( I guess). I ran e2fsck and found that it was detecting