[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat up2date crash

[Paul Drew]

Thanks for the tips. I Don't have a rescue floppy. I was too lazy to make 
one, and now I have a very good reason to do so in the future. I will try 
using the cd's to get into it. I am very familiar with miniroot for Irix, so 
if they are the same or similar that should get me started properly.

Off Topic: I am not sure why I posted multiple times, and I am sorry about 
it. I seem to mail things over and over when at work. I think it may have 
something to do with websense and its content control. I get page cannot be 
displayed alot when at work, and I have to hit retry. This happens when I 
click send with my hotmail account while at work. I am sorry to spam up 
things. :(

Thanks again for your advice, and time.
Paul Drew






>From: kbrannen at gte.net
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>To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat up2date crash
>Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:54:22 -0500
>
>Paul Drew wrote:
>>Howdy Guys,
>...
>>Upon boot I noticed that it hangs on the part where it is trying to samba 
>>mount. I did recently put some entries into the fstab, and I am pretty 
>>sure they were ok, but it seems to hang there for a bit. (30 minutes or 
>>so). Then it gives some errors, and passes it up, and gives me my Gnome 
>>login screen. No matter what login I try to use, I cannot log in. I can't 
>>login as myself, my wife, root, or any other username I have on the box. I 
>>know that the passwords SHOULD be correct too. I even tried no password 
>>for them all and root with no success.
>>
>>Since I can't login, I don't know what to do. I think more than just user 
>>permissions may have gotten hosed with the crash, but I am so new I am not 
>>sure. Any suggestion? Has anyone seen anything like this before?
>...
>
>Did you make a rescue boot floppy?  If so, try booting with that, them 
>mount the root partition to /mnt, and you can edit /mnt/etc/fstab or any 
>other file you think will help.  If you didn't make a boot floppy, try 
>booting with the install CD; there should be a "rescue" option mapped to 
>one of the function keys, or at least there used to be in the 7.x series.
>
>This should reinforce the point that security is not complete without 
>physical security too. :-)
>
>HTH,
>Kevin
>
>
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