On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:39:46PM +0530, Pramod Dematagoda wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 16:00 +0100, Mel wrote: > > On Friday 31 October 2008 15:53:23 Pramod Dematagoda wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 07:09 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:59:04PM +0530, Pramod Dematagoda wrote: > > > > > But now I've faced a big problem, I can no longer seem to login to the > > > > > root account where whenever I supply the proper credentials to the > > > > > login screen, I always get thrown back to the login screen. This > > > > > started happening after I installed D-bus and HAL through the FreeBSD > > > > > ports which were built upon Xorg 1.5.1 which I had built myself > > > > > previously, so I am wondering if something I did may have caused the > > > > > problem. > > > > > > > > Reboot the machine and at the FreeBSD beastie/loader menu, hit "4" to > > > > boot into single-user mode. Once there, do: > > > > > > > > # mount -a > > > > # mount -o rw -u / > > > > # passwd root > > > > > > > > And change the password. "reboot" and you should be good to go. > > > > > > Hey Jeremy, > > > > > > Thanks for looking into the problem, but unfortunately your solution did > > > not work, I changed the root password to something else, however I still > > > cannot login to root once I boot FreeBSD normally. > > > > There should be in indication in /var/log/messages or /var/log/auth.log. > > > I checked /var/log/messages, and I found something interesting, it seems > that csh exits with signal 11(core dumped) right after a root login, > there is nothing out of the ordinary in auth.log. But now what do I do > to fix the problem, change the shell?
csh should not sig11. Are you sure this machine does not have hardware problems? Please download and run memtest86++ from a CD. You shouldn't have to run this very long (15-20 minutes at tops in this case); errors will be quite obvious. You can try changing the shell to /bin/sh, but this is not recommended (meaning, if/when you get the system working again, please change it back to /bin/csh -- I can't stress this enough). You can change the shell by following the above steps I gave you, but using "chsh" instead of "passwd root". -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"