This could possibly be the libpam* problem which has nothing to do with your UT installation or manual fscking... did you apt-get upgrade prior to last reboot? Try boot into single user mode and apt-get update/upgrade again.
On 30 Jun 2001 12:39:24 +0200, vester wrote: > > hi everyone -- > > i fear i did something stupid. > > i wanted to try and see how good linux games actually work, so i > downloaded the unreal tournament installer from loki, copied the cds to my > windows hard disk (because i didn't have support for joliet extension in > linux) and well...installed, which seemed to work fine. i then tried to > start, but got some error messages because of missing paths, which didn't > look very serious really. but then i restarted...on boot up, there were a > lot of errors found on the hard disk and thus, the root system was mounted > read-only and i was prompted to run fsck manually. i did that and answered > yes to the questions (i realise now that i maybe shouldn't have done that) > and it seemed as if everything had been fixed, for on the next reboot > everything worked fine...all my scripts were executed and i ended up in > gdm and wanted to log in...but that didn't work. i switched over to the > console and tried to log in from there. no way. "login incorrect" is what > i get for all my user accounts and for the root account too! i am > desperate...i need to get back into my system! on the one hand i put weeks > and weeks into configuring and customizing everything and on the other > hand all my important data are in there...please, please help me...the > loki support people have not answered me yet and i am on the verge of > panicking. > > oh yes, my system is debian woody (with a few things from sid) with kernel > 2.4.5...i don't know what else to say. :-( > > thanks all! > > -vester > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --------------------------------------- e-mail: aquila at hypox dot org website: http://aquila.hypox.org geek code: GCS d- s+:--- a-- C++++ ULS++>++++ P+++ L+++>++++$ E--- W++ N+ o? K? w---- O- M-- V-- PS---@ PE--@ Y? PGP- t 5 X- R tv+ b+ DI-- D+ G++ e(++) h! r* y ---------------------------------------
