Andrew Lowe <agl <at> wht.com.au> writes:
> Hi all, > I have an ARM device that I have Gentoo on. In the past I had it > successfully running and then one day I managed to "customise" something > and I could no longer get it to boot. At the time I though "I'll have to > fix that...". Today I'm trying. If you can, over ssh, 'emerge elogv' as it will present the latest to first installed packages and some detailed notes related to the last packages you install. If not you'll have to manually go through log files and look at each of the recently installed/upgraded/modified codes to figure out what/when things went screwy..... > The machine in question operates as a small server hence runs > headless. > For the work at hand, I've attached it to the TV hence > everything is in text mode, no X. I'm assuming you've manually parsed dmesg for any indications of problems? > When it boots, I'm presented with the login prompt. I enter "root", > the password & enter. The screen flashes, a frame by frame viewing of a > video of this shows that it's printing the last time I logged in and > then am represented with the login again. This just repeats. I though > that I had forgotten the root password hence accessed the disk via > another machine, reset things in the shadow file and rebooted. Once > again the screen flashed, with the same output, and I was presented with > the login prompt again. try any user account and see if you can first login on console as an ordinary user. If you did not make up any user/admin/operator (etc) ancillary accounts, see if you can make one up remotely. (useradd) > Any thought on what could be going wrong here? I've ensured all the > files that should be owned by root are owned by root - I think. Logging > appears not to be working so I can't get much from that. I'm 99.99% sure > this is not an ARM specific problem as the machine was running perfectly > beforehand. openrc, busybox or systemd? Regardless, the myriad of arm variant can cause many variations on your problem. Make sure you have your processor/resources details. I'd recommend you drop in on gentoo-embedded irc channela as that where most of the arm-jocks hang out..... hth, James
