Booting the DVD, dropping to rescue mode, and mounting the hard disk
would allow you a look at the logs to see what it was trying to do and
how far it got when you couldn't move ahead.
I did look at the logs as you suggested but maybe not all of the ones that
would be helpful here. By the way, the
>
> I got as far as choosing this PAM option from a list but could not find
the
> list at the terminal and eventually had to shutdown and reboot.
Woops.
Many thanks for taking the time to respond to my query on this
> When I did this I got a login prompt that doesn't ask for a password.
In
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Michael Fothergill
wrote:
> Dear Debian folks,
>
> I am running Debian Testing on an AMD64 box.
>
> I was trying to update it with new packages and got dependency problems.
>
> I got as far as choosing this PAM option from a list but could not find the
> list at th
Dear Debian folks,
I am running Debian Testing on an AMD64 box.
I was trying to update it with new packages and got dependency problems.
I got as far as choosing this PAM option from a list but could not find the
list at the terminal and eventually had to shutdown and reboot.
When I did this I
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