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Re: Redhat 5.2 Crash... - Help...



How about you just boot single mode, or init=/bin/bash and check
out /etc/passwd? While you are at it, check out some other basic
system files...

One more thing: Your From: field is screwed up...
I assume it's earthling.net and not earhling.net.

Benji Selano wrote:
> 
> Hello...
> 
> I need some help... for some reason.. (not sure why... i think power
> shortage) my linux box crashed....
> i think it was while it was downloading something ... anyway...
> all i got when i came to my computer was fsck.ext2 forced on boot and
> seeing hundreds of lines... linux booting and again... for, i think 5
> hours or so...
> anyway, booted with rescue disk... ran fsck.ext2 manually, got it all
> fixed (press Enter on all the questions...) saw the most of the errors
> where in ~/.netscape/cache/... so i really don't mind....
> 
> anyway booted again, this time fsck.ext2 -a  said that the partition was
> clean - everything seemed to be loading well...
> the problem is this:
> login : root <Enter>
> 
> brings me back to:
> 
> login:
>  any user... anything... doesn't get to the password field...
> 
> what can i do? - is it the password file?? users file...
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Benji Selano
> benj@earthling.net

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