Re: cannot login as root anymore
From: Bill Vermillion (bv_at_wjv.com)
Date: 11/02/04
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Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:05:01 GMT
In article <2upg1qF2ckf29U1@uni-berlin.de>,
Jens Richter <baronvonspam@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Hello
>
>after a hard reboot (caused by firefox, no idea why) I cannot login as
>root.
>In X, I get:
>su
>password
>segmentation fault
>
>at the prompt:
>root
>password
>kernel: pid 197 (csh), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
>
>I tried to boot into single user mode, mounted -u / and -a, then
># passwd root
># newpassword
># exit
>but # password gives me the same error message.
>Any idea what to do now?
In the single user mode have you tried vipw ?
Bill
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