On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Running stock Red Hat 6.1 on a Packard Bell Legend 85CD Supreme 486-66. I can no > longer log in. The login prompt is there, when I enter "root" or any username > the prompt goes to the next line, but the password request doesn't appear. It > sits for about 40 seconds and then flashes the following error message across > the screen: > > "Unable to load interpretor" > > and then immediately brings back the username prompt. > > How do I gain access to the system? How do I fix it? > > Glen
Go to this site and create a root/boot disk. http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html Once you've booted off of this floppy you can look at the shells and /etc/shells. Also look in /etc/passwd to see what the default shell for your root user is. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D Geek By Nature DK KD DDDD Linux By Choice _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
