On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Shin Ogino wrote: > After updating a few packages with dselect and rebooting my machine, I > am not able to login as root any more. When I type root and its > password on login prompt, I do not get any response. I have to use CTR-c > to kill process. This problem has been raised before, it is a problem with one of the sysklogd packages, the version eludes me ATM. There has been a work around suggested but I didn't pay much attention as I won't be rebooting my machine for a while and as such can wait for the fix to be released :)
Nikolai