On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:29:46AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Can you login as a different user? As root? No. (I can login to X, or via ssh though).
> Are any of your partitions mounted read-only? /dev/hda10 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) > Have you fsck'd your partitions lately? fsck has been reporting them clean. However e2fsck.ext3 -c /dev/hda10 from Knoppix 3.2 reported that the fs had been modified, but gave little information. I'm sorry I've lost the output, but it didn't look strange to me. It hasn't fixed the problem (but see below). > What are the permissions on './bin/login'? -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Oct 9 09:36 /bin/login I think I see the problem here. It's empty. :-} So getty is timing out. However if I try to move this file it gives a permission denied: root:/bin# mv login login-tmp mv: cannot move `login' to `login-tmp': Operation not permitted root:~# chmod 644 /bin/login chmod: changing permissions of `/bin/login': Operation not permitted root:~# rm /bin/login remove write-protected regular empty file `/bin/login'? n I can copy it, and move other files in the same directory. It is presumably this problem that is preventing it's upgrade. I suppose I could try dropping another /bin/login on top of it, or removing it, but I'm quite curious now. However, I don't know enough about filesystems to know what has happened. root:~# stat /bin/login File: `/bin/login' Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 Regular File Device: 30ah/778d Inode: 17894 Links: 1 Access: (0666/-rw-rw-rw-) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2003-10-09 09:36:03.000000000 +1000 Modify: 2003-10-09 09:36:03.000000000 +1000 Change: 2003-10-09 09:36:03.000000000 +1000 Nothing else is playing up, the system seems fine apart from this. Thanks very much for your advice. Patrick Lesslie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]