I have an odd problem with my Debian system. When it boots up into multi-user mode, it "automatically" logs in as 'root' on the first console. It's impossible to terminate the session, as a new one starts immediately after I exit the shell. It's in run level 2 and the other consoles behave normally.
Another problem I have is that the machine won't reboot by itself. If I "telinit 6", it shuts down, then sits there without rebooting until I hit the reset button. Is this an AMD quirk? I loaded Debian 1.3 on an old AMD 486-80 based machine. It seemed to load properly, except that a number of utilities were not present (such as 'dselect', "mesg", "start-stop-daemon"). I was a bit dubious, but not having loaded Debian for a while (last time it was at 1.0, I think) I just assumed I wasn't up with the latest developments. I scrounged a dselect binary which ran, but no access methods were available so I was no better off. The autologin phenomenon didn't manifest itself until I tried reinstalling the base system from the boot diskettes. On booting from the hard disk after this, it asked me to pick a root password, but after the "passwd" dialog, it'd say "Try again" and run "passwd" again. I flipped to another console, logged in as a mere user, su'ed and killed the passwd and bash processes, and ran "passwd" manually to set the root password. Now I have the autologin problem but "dselect" seems to be OK. My guess is that part(s) of the Debian load process didn't complete, or failed silently. Can anyone shed light on this? Could I somehow have bad install disks and not know it? Thanks, Alastair -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .