[Please!, don't top post in this mailing list.] On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:36:38AM -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > Hola! > > I- m starting to get desperate! I found lots of instructions on the > web about how to solve this, but none of them works. Example, I > founmd this > > In grub press e ton edit options > add to init options > > init=/bin/sh > RET > press b to boot > Then mount -o remount,rw / > passwd kjetil > (repeating new password twice) > exec init
Instead of changing your password like that, what I'd do is after "mount -o remount,rw" I'd "vim /etc/passwd" and take out the x for root: i.e before: root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash after root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash save it, (make sure it saved ok.) then reboot. You should now be able to login as root without needing a password and investigate from there. Does that work? -- "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120318084604.GE11367@tal