Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Vanh,

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 08:00, Stephen Liu wrote:
 

For unknown reason my Gentoo 1.4 box can't start after running 'emerge 
-u world'  Login as ROOT does not need root-password (key in 
root-password popup invalid password) and can't login as USER.

Incidentally Fail-Safe can be started

cat /etc/fstab   found following difference.

ReiserFS changed to xfs;
/dev/ROOT        /        xfs        noatime            0 0
following line being added;
none            /dev/shm    tmpfs        defaults   0 0
Can I delete above line and change 'xfs' back to 'reiserfs' to fix 
starting problem?

# cat /etc/passwd
root:x:0,0:root:root:/bin/bash
...
...
Operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/bin/bash
(USER/satimis not found there)

How to restore 'root-password' and re-add USER.   Whether;

# /etc/passwd  passwd

and

# /etc/passwd  useradd

can solve my problem.

This test box without backup therefore I have to taking precaution on 
each step made.

've just been through this myself. In my case it was genkernel that did
me in. So what I've done was rename the old one back, and remove the new
one. 
 

Thanks for your response.

I also suspect 'upgrade betagenkernel' rendered my Gentoo box into problem.

I have edited  /etc/fstab  same as Chapter 15 but problem still remained 
at booting with following warning;

Warning...fsck, reiserfs for device /dev/Root exited with signal 6 
Filesystem couldn't be fixed.

At boot I only see one 'genkernel...' without the old version for 
selection as in other distro.   Kindly advise in detail how to fix it.

TIA

B.R.
Stephen
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