unable to logon after updating ports collection - Freebsd 7.1 stable
Hello, After I completed my Freebsd 7.1 stable, and updated all the ports, I got prompted with another logonscreen. Whatever I try, I can't login with my useraccount and even not logon as root. This happened severall times now, the only way was to reinstall everything, and I was hoping to resolve this by completly finish upgrading the ports. And .. again the same problem. I'm really hoping to get some answers that will solve this problem, maybe someone had to deal with this issue before ?? I will not give up, because Freebsd stole my heart. Regards, Roy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: unable to logon after updating ports collection - Freebsd 7.1 stable
Roy Stuivenberg roys1...@gmail.com writes: After I completed my Freebsd 7.1 stable, and updated all the ports, I got prompted with another logonscreen. Whatever I try, I can't login with my useraccount and even not logon as root. This happened severall times now, the only way was to reinstall everything, and I was hoping to resolve this by completly finish upgrading the ports. And .. again the same problem. I'm really hoping to get some answers that will solve this problem, maybe someone had to deal with this issue before ?? I will not give up, because Freebsd stole my heart. The problem has nothing to do with ports. To restore your root/user logins: . boot into single user mode; . set a new root password; . set a new user password; . boot into multiuser mode; . login and have fun. WBR -- bsam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: unable to logon after updating ports collection - Freebsd 7.1 stable
Roy Stuivenberg roys1...@gmail.com writes: After I completed my Freebsd 7.1 stable, and updated all the ports, I got prompted with another logonscreen. Whatever I try, I can't login with my useraccount and even not logon as root. This happened severall times now, the only way was to reinstall everything, and I was hoping to resolve this by completly finish upgrading the ports. And .. again the same problem. I'm really hoping to get some answers that will solve this problem, maybe someone had to deal with this issue before ?? I will not give up, because Freebsd stole my heart. The problem has nothing to do with ports. To restore your root/user logins: . boot into single user mode; . set a new root password; . set a new user password; . boot into multiuser mode; . login and have fun. WBR -- bsam ___ I've had the same thing happen to me not 2 weeks ago after upgrading a server from 7.0-RC2 to 7.1-RELEASE with freebsd-update. For me the problem had nothing to do with ports but with the update itself, because it replaced my pwd.db and spwd.db with the default ones (root with no password, no user accounts) and since ssh doesn't accept root logins I ended up going to the datacenter and copying the backups of those db's back. Then everything was fine again. Very strange they got replaced though.. Sounds like you've had something similar happen to you. Hopefully your machine isn't too far away. Bert-Jan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: unable to logon after updating ports collection - Freebsd 7.1 stable
Bert-Jan wrote: Roy Stuivenberg roys1...@gmail.com writes: After I completed my Freebsd 7.1 stable, and updated all the ports, I got prompted with another logonscreen. Whatever I try, I can't login with my useraccount and even not logon as root. This happened severall times now, the only way was to reinstall everything, and I was hoping to resolve this by completly finish upgrading the ports. And .. again the same problem. I'm really hoping to get some answers that will solve this problem, maybe someone had to deal with this issue before ?? I will not give up, because Freebsd stole my heart. The problem has nothing to do with ports. To restore your root/user logins: . boot into single user mode; . set a new root password; . set a new user password; . boot into multiuser mode; . login and have fun. WBR -- bsam ___ I've had the same thing happen to me not 2 weeks ago after upgrading a server from 7.0-RC2 to 7.1-RELEASE with freebsd-update. For me the problem had nothing to do with ports but with the update itself, because it replaced my pwd.db and spwd.db with the default ones (root with no password, no user accounts) and since ssh doesn't accept root logins I ended up going to the datacenter and copying the backups of those db's back. Then everything was fine again. Very strange they got replaced though.. Sounds like you've had something similar happen to you. Hopefully your machine isn't too far away. Bert-Jan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Might I add the tempting and tendancy to change root's shell to a non-base shell. While you're in single user, use a base shell if you're using non-base (ahem! bash users) --Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
